Why do we believe lies?

People are willing to hear lies if they benefit them. The lies that "might become true" are the things that are making some people jump about excitement. The lies look like this: "In our company, the person not attending school can earn 5000 dollars per day". 

Or "our CEO has ever been in any schools. And he raises to the position of the head of 3000 employees company because of the good scent". And then some person can add that the "you can make similar career". 

So 1/3000 workers can rise to the position of CEO. And the probability seems very good. The thing that makes some people believe those things is, that they are a touch of self-esteem. Those things are told multiplied in a way that those people want to hear.

People who are victims of that kind of lies are probably left their schools without graduating. So they want to hear things that support their choice. How do they confess to people around them that they made the right decision? And then some angel comes and tells that they have the salesman who earns 8000 dollars per week. 

People want to hear those kinds of things especially if they don't like schools. The thing is that there is the possibility that one of 3000 can raise to an important position. That thing doesn't feel lie at all. When people believe that kind of lie they are a little bit overoptimistic. They want to hear those kinds of stories of success. 

Do e believe lies, or are we just acting that we believe them? 

When people are telling things that are not true, they tell lies. But why do we believe lies? Or do we believe lies? The thing is this: there are many times when we are seeing that people are telling about things that are not true. But we are not telling that thing to the storyteller because we want to be polite. 

If some old or sick person tells things that are not the fact at their probably last birthdays we might not tell that those things that the person tells are not true. So we want to be polite, but we should tell our children that the things that they heard were against facts.

In the case of governmental propaganda, the thing that boosts misinformation is that there is only one acceptable truth. If people are criticizing that official truth they will get in trouble. 

So do we believe the lies? One thing is that the person who is our boss is telling lies. Should we tell that our boss tells lies, or keep our mouths shut? In those cases, we don't believe lies, but we are playing that we cannot see that person telling things that are not true.

But then we must realize that people who are telling lies. Are more often believing them than the people who are telling truth. There are two explanations for that interesting thing.  The person who tells lies might believe that nobody noticed that. 

The lies like using the wrong name or hiding some vital-looking information are status. That thing rises the position of the person in the social hierarchy. And that might give a false image about the lying skills of that person. The question is: does the henchman believe lies? Or are they just letting that thing be? If you would in Russia, and see that some FSB agent is telling very poor lies would you tell that person is lying?

In that case, the authority of the liar denies that the people will tell the things that person is lying. In that case, the authority denies that people are not fixing lies, even if they know that person is lying.  In those cases, the afraid of consequences is denying that people tell that person lies to them. 

The social pressure that forces people to act as they might look believe lies is that they have used the same lies themselves. That thing causes the force, that they must make the same things with their victims. The salvation of the cheater is sometimes that they are made the same things as their victims or they believed those things. So the social pressure makes them act against their knowledge. 

Sometimes in those cases, the social pressure is denying to fix the misinformation. When most people who use authority others believe misinformation,  there is needed big courage to fix those lies.  This is the reason why propaganda is targeted at the superiors. The idea is that it denies the criticism because people are afraid to hurt their boss's emotions. 

But the second thing why people who often tell lies also believe lies more often than people who are telling the truth is simple. Liars hear lies more often than people who tell truth. The reason for that is simple. People surround themselves with people similar to themselves. That means liars are surrounding themselves with other liars. And that makes them hear lies more often than people who tell truth. 

Sources:

https://scitechdaily.com/lies-that-might-eventually-come-true-people-willing-to-spread-misinformation-if-they-believe-it-could-become-true-in-the-future/

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The embarrassing things and the Tor network are problematic to handle.

Many things, including Tor-network, are not purely good or bad. The Tor network offers the platform for telling things, prohibited in many countries. And that thing makes this network difficult to handle. When people are making things like legislation for the internet. They are balancing privacy and individual rights and control. The thing is that if something is prohibited. That just slips into the Tor network. 

The Tor network is the place that might feel safe. But there is the possibility that organizations like NSA or some other intelligence agencies are made trap pages or "honey pots" in that network. Those homepages include a so-called tracking cookie, that is sent to the receiving computer and that cookie tells the location and IP address of the computer by sending the data over the Tor connection. 

The same network that offers privacy is offering a platform for child abusers and drug dealers. And the fact is that the things like network pornography are embarrassing things for people who are playing with their attitudes and high moral things. When some people will justify something. They should understand. That when they are using the net somebody can walk behind them. 

So what would you think about the person who justifies things like pornography? But in that person's home is a room full of pornographic movies. That thing is a little bit embarrassing. Same way. When a person like a conservative "family man" is surprised watching child pornography, that thing can be a "little bit" embarrassing.  

The Tor network offers privacy and protects information. Privacy and information protection along with anonymity in the use of the internet are the key elements for protecting democracy. But those things are the most misused in the world. The Tor network is also the dark side of the internet. In the so-called darknet child abuse, drug dealers, and other kinds of marginal groups are found the place where those people can make their hobby. That is one of the saddest things on the internet. There should be limits to freedom. 

Things like pedophilia are the tabu. They are prohibited, and the problem is that many people are not confessing those things even to themselves. And then suddenly they see the homepage, where are shown those things. So that homepage can turn very often to the browser of that kind of people. So sooner or later somebody walks behind that person, and then some things that are not tolerated in a middle-class family are seen on that screen. 

The problem in western society is that people are hard to talk about their thoughts and "prohibited behavior". There is a high threshold to go to the doctor and ask about things like suspicion of pedophilia especially if the person is talking about themselves. That kind of thing might help, if a person gets support, therapy, and the right medical and maybe some child-abusing cases will not happen, if pedophiles dare to get help. And if some person is addicted to net pornography that disturbs the work that thing requires discussion. 

But the internet has brought hardcore porn and its byproducts to the front of people. And some of the things that are in the films and pictures are embarrassing. There might be middle-class conservative families' housemaids making something that is prohibited. 

The fact is that most of those people are full-aged and responsible for themselves.  But should we deny pornography? The fact is that this kind of thing just will slip to the Tor network where nobody can control it. The problem is that the wealthy pedophiles can travel to countries where is no legislation about those things. 

The internet brought many things that are prohibited in front of people. The crimes and wars including the Ukrainian war are now in front of our eyes. And sometimes, I wonder would there be sanctions against Russia if there is no internet? 

This is the problem with the internet and Tor-network. Tor network offers freedom and a channel to publish things that are not tolerated. The problem is that it's the platform for things like child abuse and drug dealers. 

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Why didn't the Russian army not do its mission in Ukraine as it should?

We all see that Ukraine didn't fall in 96 hours. And the question is why that thing is happening. During the exercises, the operations are done well. But the flop is happening in the real mission. All Russian units including the famous Spetsnaz are not what they should be. So what is the problem? There are many possibilities for that kind of surprise.

One of them is what the Russian army didn't expect. Is that the Javelin missiles will be so effective. And the Russian military experts expected that they could shoot down Ukrainian drones and fighters down easily by using their most modern jet fighters. 

The other version is that the troops are not prepared for their mission. There is the possibility that the commandos didn't get vial information like what their target looks like. If the team's target is a command center they should know what that thing looks like. And of course, they must know where is the point where they should put the explosives. 

That lack of information can contain the scenario where paratroopers don't even know, that they are going to battle. This means that the leaders of those units just forget to tell them that there is a war where they are going. Or maybe some of those troops believed that Ukraine was surrendering. So they didn't expect what they will face. 

There is always the possibility that there were only the best teams in the exercise and the skills of regular teams are far lower than in those "show teams".  There is also the possibility that the commanders are not telling truth about their strike capacity. There is the possibility that some "old guys" are not done their exercises as they should. And of course, if we think that failure is not acceptable in those exercises and demonstrations. 

There is also the possibility that some commanders are used fraud in those pieces of training. That means that if the commander put the detonators or explosives on the targets and then launches them at the right moment that thing makes the effect that looks like a successful artillery strike. There is always some reason for the flops in real situations. 

Of course, things like foodservice are one of the most fatal things in combat missions. When military men are in the combat zone they need ammo supply but also food and something to drink. If there is no food the sugar level in the blood will decrease. And that thing makes operations very hard.