This video outlines how humans compartmentalize their beliefs and actions. Examples of compartmentalization are everywhere. Reports often reveal “honest” individuals engaged in dishonest actions. This is more than simple duplicity or hypocrisy by thoroughly dishonest people. A person could be raised never to tell a lie to his mother, but as a grown-up, he learned that lying to customers was totally acceptable. Likewise, an evangelical preacher could give a sermon on Sunday about the virtues of honesty, but peddle political falsehoods on Monday. The surprising thing is that everyone does this. Values come into conflict when differing expectations in different compartments lead us to believe or act in different ways.
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These situations whereby we may “stretch the truth a little” are probably accurate for most people, obviously to various degrees. Absolute truthfulness at all times, without any qualifications or oversights, would be very rare and even abrasive at times, which in some respects, limits it. Most of us like to be conciliatory and diplomatic trying to find common ground with other people. We tend to try to create interactions with other people concerning things that we think we have in common and probably would agree upon. Unfortunately, if you are a politician or member of a certain denomination or cult (religious or not) you may not be particularly truthful, but you feel you have to appear to be truthful and therefore must put on a facade of almost absolute truthfulness. Some people do not really care about truth or reality, they just compartmentalize that if they can project others to believe them that is all the “truth” they need. Usually others don’t really believe that these persons are 100% truthful, but as long as they can also compartmentalize that they agree with them more than they disagree, or it is otherwise advantageous for them, they agree and comply. In general, the alphas probably get away with more untruthfulness than less dominant personalities are able to because very simply, they can.