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A person who uses deception knows better. A person who is deceived does not know better. Knowing this can help a person. Not knowing this can be bad, but it can be understood better.
A person can tell another person that a baby is inside a burning building, even though a person knows better: there is no baby inside the burning building.
If you know better, deception does not work on you.
If you don't know better, deception may work on you, as you may be led to believe in a lie, and you may act upon a lie, and you may then make your own life miserable, and for no good reason, at all. Not for you. Why does someone lie?
If you build a good foundation, and if you know better, you may never, ever, see a need to use deception on someone. If you use deception, you are not deceived. The idea of deception is to cause someone else to be deceived. If you are not deceived, how can deception be bad? If you try to deceive yourself you fail each time, if you succeed in deceiving yourself, it is no longer self-deception, you will arrive at duplicity. You think that lies are true. No way out. Too, too bad for you.
Deception can be very dangerous for those who invent it, and then use it, because it can blow back, it can return to the source, and it can infect the person trying to infect other people with lies.
Be warned, know better.
If this confuses you, the problem may be that my words are not good enough for you. I am not confused. I am not deceived. If this confuses you, you may be deceived. If you are confused, you may not be standing on a good foundation yet.
I may be able to help you see better, know better, and I may be able to help you avoid deception, and I may be able to help you see that deception can be used by good people as good people avoid or defend against bad people.
A bad person can be deceived too.
If a good person uses deception on a bad person, the bad person is then deceived, not the good person.
Deception can be bad for the bad people, when bad people are also deceived.
It is usually the bad people who are working very hard to deceive good people, but not always.
Deception is bad, for those who are deceived.
Are you deceived?
If you are not deceived, then how can deception be bad to you?
How about an illustration for anyone who is still confused, or anyone who is still deceived?
A bad person targets you and the bad person wants to do bad things to you. If you don't know better, you are weak, and you will eventually have bad things done to you by that bad person, if that bad person does what that bad person wants to do, and make no mistake, know better, there are bad people, that is a fact.
I can ask for help in building this illustration, and you can help me, or someone else can help me, as this illustration is built up from my starting foundation.
A good person is on a good foundation and a bad person knows about that good person, and a bad person targets that good person, and somehow the good person finds out, and then the good person knows better, as the good person figures out a way to avoid the bad things that the bad person will do to the good person, if possible.
Bad people do bad things to weaker people. Bad people can't do bad things to stronger people who know better.
I'm going to get help from Henry. Henry is going to play the part of a bad person. I want to make sure that you know that Henry is not a bad person. I'm going to get help from Henry as Henry remains to be a very good person, but for now Henry is going to help me play a part, to build an illustration, to help you know better about deception.
Deception is bad. Are you confused, are you deceived, do you know better about deception?
Deception is bad, it is bad for people who are deceived.
Henry can help. Henry is going to play the part of a bad person, and I'm going to play the part of a good person. Henry calls me up on the phone. I answer the phone.
Ring, ring, ring.
Joe:
"Hello, this is Joe."
Henry:
"I am going to arrive at your house tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. When I get there I'm going to do very bad things to you and everyone in your family. Too bad for you."
Joe:
"OK Henry. I will be here, on time, and all my family will be here too, and we will all be ready for you to do bad things to us. Henry, you are a bad person, and we know it."
Henry:
"Too bad for you, see you at 9."
What happens next?
The idea here is to build up a story that explains how deception works, how deception is bad, but it is bad only from the eyes of the person who is deceived.
Deception is not bad from the eyes of the person who knows better.
What happens if Henry is deceived by Joe as Joe sets a trap for Henry at Joe's house at 9 o'clock?
Henry trusts Joe, at Joe's word. Joe will be home, and Joe's family will be home, and Henry can do bad things at 9 o'clock to Joe and Joe's family at Joe's house because Joe told Henry what Joe was going to do, when Henry called Joe to tell Joe about the appointment to do bad things to Joe and to inform Joe about the schedule where Joe's family will be on the same list of people to be harmed as Joe, where bad things will be done at that time, in that house, on that list of things to do, on that schedule, where Henry is the bad person, and where Henry has that list of bad things to do, and that list of people to do bad things to, and that schedule of when those bad things will be done at those times on those days. How many words does it take to confuse someone?
How many words does it take to deceive someone?
Henry:
"I'm calling again to confirm the appointment at 9"
Joe:
"We are ready. I even went to the bank to get all the money this family has ever earned, so you can have that money as payment for all the bad things that you are going to do to us at 9."
Henry:
"Good boy. I will be right there, a little early. I can't wait to do bad things, and take your money. How about 8:30?"
Joe:
"Sure."
You can say, obviously, that bad people do not announce their plans and their schedules to their targeted victims in advance, and that is the point of this part in this book.
Deception is bad, for who?
[Joe edit 09/23/2011]
[edit 10-10-2011]