Fear The Walking Dead, SROTW: Honesty IS The Best Policy

Fear the Walking Dead

Stacking lies on top of lies never works. 

Okay, what do you do when your lies get found out? Obviously, if you were deciding to lie in the first place, you don’t want the truth to come out, so what do you do?

Depending on the nature of the original lie, the smart thing to do would be to ‘fess up and hope they eventually forgive you. But, assuming the original lie was big enough, the most likely course of action will be to use another lie to cover up the first one.

There’s just one tiny little problem with this plan: If that lie gets found out, you need another, and then another, until, finally, you have so many that you can’t keep track of them. Once one breaks, the floodgates open because each lie throws the next into question or undermines your credibility. This causes the person you’ve lied to to question everything else you’ve told them, even the things that are true.

Lies are bad enough, but if you start stacking more lies on top of it, it becomes a house of cards just waiting to collapse.