Sophisticated Liars There are liars all over America. Accordingly to Richard Gunderman, a professor in Health Studies, states that, “The average American tells eleven lies per week” (Paragraph 1). Lying is like second nature to the human race, but the question is why do human lie? Is it because it’s so easy to do so? Is it to deceive others? Is it to have an easier life? Or is it to spare another human’s feelings? The list of question goes on. When lying takes place, there is always a reason behind it on why humans do it. Sometimes the reason is best for the situation and sometimes it’s the worst. But what most humans forget about lying is the physical and mental aspect that ties along with it. After researching and analyzing the data on lying…show more content… Both are experts on the topic, they even written an essay on it. These essays have represented the idea of lying to the majority of the human race. Gunderman, a specialist on Health Studies and Medical education, writes that lying is wrong in any way or form and should be avoided at all cost for the human’s physical and mental health. He proves his hypothesis by using factual statements in his writing. Ericsson, a single mother of two, on the other hand believes that yes, lying is wrong and should be avoided at all cost but also believes that there are certain situations where lying is necessary. Throughout her entire essay, she categorized the different types of lies that could be told through personal experiences allowing for the readers to gain a sense of connection. Both author coincide on most of their arguments made in their essay. For example both overlaps on the idea that lying has become so common in our culture that people are starting to encourage it. Ericsson even comments that, “Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish” (Paragraph 34). Gunderman also stated that, “We live in a culture where it is increasingly common to encourage lying, and even to suppose that there is nothing problematic about doing so” (Paragraph 2). When lies become to extreme to humans, it starts to take over the human’s mind and body physically and mentally. When this happens human do not know the different between right and wrong and what’s true and what is not. When both of the author’s theses synthesizes it turns into something like this, humans lie because of the situation they’re put in, like when a human is in trouble they would lie in an attempt to get out of their current struggling state. These lies could seem small and seen as nothing but truly it starts
