The problem of “testilying” is as serious as the book Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me makes it out to be. “Testilying” leads to perjury, which is lying under oath in a court for example, meaning that if a police officer gives a false testimony the wrong person could be punished for an action not carried out by them. Nothing is done about it because it is hard to detect and the only way you could change the testimonials mind is by getting past their cognitive dissonance, which we know is a daunting if not impossible task.
The first reason why testilying is out of hand is cognitive dissonances relationship to perjury. When someone lies under oath there has to be a motive behind it whether it be consciously or unconsciously. An example of this, …show more content…
I’m sure everyone at one point has lied about something whether it be small or big. At some point when deciding to lie you will determine that you are the only person that fully knows the truth and therefore the costs of lieing out weighs the consequences. A joke commonly referred to in fishing is how big the fish is. It seems every time the story is told the fish that was caught gets bigger. The fisherman realizing that he can bend the story because he is the only one who will truly know the story is an example of justifying yourself because you know you are the only person who will know.
A society without testilying would be a lot more fair. An obvious area where fairness would be visible is the justice system. Ordinary people wouldn’t be falsely accused of crimes they didn’t do. Everyone would tell the truth under oath and the right people would be brought to justice.
Testilying is a problem because of cognitive dissonance related to perjury, another reason is that it is near impossible to tell if someone is lying. Without testilying plaguing our society, life would be much more fair if no one lied under oath. If no one lied under oath it would be much simpler to convict the right criminals and keep them in jail. Testilying is serious offence, and something needs to be done about
The first reason why testilying is out of hand is cognitive dissonances relationship to perjury. When someone lies under oath there has to be a motive behind it whether it be consciously or unconsciously. An example of this, …show more content…
I’m sure everyone at one point has lied about something whether it be small or big. At some point when deciding to lie you will determine that you are the only person that fully knows the truth and therefore the costs of lieing out weighs the consequences. A joke commonly referred to in fishing is how big the fish is. It seems every time the story is told the fish that was caught gets bigger. The fisherman realizing that he can bend the story because he is the only one who will truly know the story is an example of justifying yourself because you know you are the only person who will know.
A society without testilying would be a lot more fair. An obvious area where fairness would be visible is the justice system. Ordinary people wouldn’t be falsely accused of crimes they didn’t do. Everyone would tell the truth under oath and the right people would be brought to justice.
Testilying is a problem because of cognitive dissonance related to perjury, another reason is that it is near impossible to tell if someone is lying. Without testilying plaguing our society, life would be much more fair if no one lied under oath. If no one lied under oath it would be much simpler to convict the right criminals and keep them in jail. Testilying is serious offence, and something needs to be done about