Another man, in his 60's and wearing an old brown suit, offered this assessment: "The government always deceives us.
Ultimately, your position is either a truism (we are sometimes deceived about the nature of reality and why we do things) or self-contradictory (we are usually or always deceived about the nature of reality and why we do things).
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
"That's what they do to hide from predators; they pretend to be coral, they pretend to be eel grass, they always deceive".
For Butler we are often self-deceived even when we think we are doing what is morally right (in fact if we think we are wholly in the right we are almost always deceived (Sermon X §13)) and we often only recognize our self-deception — if at all -- upon later reflection.
Hours after the #talks, Americans offered a fact sheet that most of it was contrary to what was agreed.They always deceive &breach promises.
But then, appearances have always been deceiving for Almonte.
They include the questions of how lying is to be defined, how deceiving is to be defined, and whether lying is always a form of deceiving.
