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In Lies We Trust
The 2009 romantic-fantasy movie The Invention of Lying portrays a world completely devoid of untruths, where everyone tells the truth all the time and everything said is taken at face value. Mark Bellison, the protagonist, begins by explaining that in his world, everyone tells the entire truth, not matter how hurtful or cruel. The audience notices a Pepsi ad with the tagline, “Pepsi: when they don’t have coke,” among other peculiar things. This premise is not only humorous because it is so contrary to reality, but also unsettling, because it brings to light how frequently humans lie and are dependent on lying, as well as how the world cannot exist without it. Indeed, although lying is often negatively perceived, the ubiquity of it is observed all around the world, particularly in commonplace and social exchanges. …show more content…

Similarly, in the Bible, Adam and Eve committed the Original Sin due to the serpent’s lie. The infamous witch trials, moreover, exploded on the basis of eradicating diabolical lies. In 1963, the United States Supreme Court ruled that confessions induced by “truth serums” (Barbiturates including scopolamine, sodium amytal and sodium pentothal) were a of torture and unconstitutional (“A Brief History of Lying”). Comparably, in his article pertaining the topic of lying in the west, author Adam Pasion further explicates

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