Gary Direnfeld
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You're so sweet to me.
Oh, I've got to be honest.
I've got to be this and I've got to be that.
I said, well, tell me about Santa Claus.
That's a different bias.
The issue for me is less the lie than the motivation.
And, you know, no, there's no monsters under the bed.
There's no such thing as this.
There's, you know, if you don't eat this, you're not going to grow up big and strong.
We use these white lies all the time.
The caution is, again, who's being served by it?
And, you know, could it backfire?
And so we still want people, parents to be cautious about those white lies.
Because listen, if you get caught in the white lie, you still have to deal with the fallout from that.
And the fallout is a lack of trust, anger, harm to the relationship, a person won't believe you anymore.
So it is a bit of a risky maneuver.
But again, I'm not, in theory, opposed.
But no one's going to die on that sort.
Did you sleep with my ex?
No.