Why is everyone f***ing lying? are they insane?

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The more you deal with people, the more you must "lie by omission."

If somebody is wearing an outfit that doesn't look good on him/her, do you comment on it? If you're asked if the outfit "looks good," do you give an honest answer if you feel an outfit doesn't look good on the person?

Also: most people don't say they are "doing bad" (especially if they are actually "doing bad") if asked "how are you doing?" In essence, they are lying--but they are lying for a reason--so as not to get socially ostracized for being a depressing person to be around.

If people always told total strangers how they "really feel," we'd probably go extinct. People would just want to kill each other LOL.

Social rules were developed for a reason: the preservation of our species, and the preservation of civil order.

This also used to drive me crazy. I found out from my therapist that everyone lied everyday and I was too honest so he was trying to teach m to lie and it felt so awkward to do it. People say it's wrong to lie but they don't mean it. What they mean is you cannot lie about your intentions or do things that are dishonest like steal or break the law or do fraud, things that would hurt people.

I realize now people lie if it's not going to hurt anyone and if it's going to spare your hurt feelings and make you happy like how parents lie to their kids all the time to keep them from being afraid or to get them to eat healthy or because some things are too advanced for them to understand so they lie and lot of people don't see it as a lie because it's at the level of understanding for the child. I once read a post on another website about someone learning about diabetes in school when they were five and he was scared of getting it so his anxiety got so bad it was consuming his life his mother finally told him that only adults got it and kids didn't. I was sure that was a lie his mom told him so I said in my response "I bet she was lying so you would stop worrying about it because kids can get diabetes" and he said he knows that now and so did she then. But yeah some things are too much for a child to process so the parent lies about it to get them over their fear so they will go back to normal. I see that part as a gray area for when it's okay to lie because you are doing it for the child's sake and it's not going to hurt them. Just as long as there were good intentions for the lie, I am not bothered by it. But sometimes these lies backfire because kids are so literal like one four year old freaked out about going to the hospital because she thought she would never see her mom again because her mom had told her her dad was in the hospital so that is why she never sees him. He was in jail and the mom didn't want her to know that. Sometimes I think how hard is it to just tell your kid the truth like say her dad is in jail because he did something very naughty and jail is a place grown ups go when they broke the law. Did the mother think her daughter knowing her dad is in jail will be too much for her to process and make her fear her life thinking she will go to jail if she does something wrong it takes over her life and keeps her from living a happy peaceful life because she is so afraid of making a mistake? But even honesty can also backfire because it can make the child be very afraid they can no longer live a normal life but that also depends on the child. Some kids can handle the truth better than others so parents can be more honest with that child than they can with another one. So either way can backfire.