... you know, sometimes I think I'm deceptive for being able to get away with white lies and lies of convenience, until I start realizing the scale at which people motivated by powerful emotion can and are willing to lie. @_@ Lying out of anger is something that would make perfect (if unpleasant) logical sense, and yet I actively have no idea how to do it and difficulty acknowledging that that is something people are perfectly capable of doing.
Nah, experience plays a huge part in this. Empathy is based on it, after all. Furthermore, different people react to different emotions in varied ways, and deal with them at the time in a multitude of fashions, too.
You probably have no idea how to do it simply because you don't process your rage like that. Which makes it more difficult to relate to, and therefore understand.
You're also equating two very, VERY different things. Lies of convenience are a means to deal with an unpleasant truth (not the BEST means, but means regardless). Lying out of
anger or another emotion is a coping mechanism to deal with the emotion itself. sometimes (but not always) directing that emotion at someone else, whom can be perceived as the source of the emotion or not.
It actually says a little bit about your character that you can't do it. Not being able to acknowledge that others will do it only speaks to your experience.
