Which is worse?

Question

Which is worse? Deceving others or yourself? And Why?

Answer 1

Deceiving yourself. Deceiving others comes along with deceiving yourself. If you can't be honest with yourself, how can you be honest with others?

Answer 2

If you deceive yourself you cause injury to yourself and others.
If you deceive others you can still maintain some truth and therefore be able to recover the truth when you choose.

I would say that both will destroy you but one allows for an easier recovery. I struggled with deceit and the damage I did to myself has continued to hurt me even when I fixed the outside lies. I can't trust myself because I deceived myself. This has been the most painful part.

Answer 3

If one is deceiving the self, others are being deceived. They are one and the same.

Despite religious or morally sermons from the mount, there are times when deceipt is quite acceptable -- and even appreciated.

If you learn that someone wants to hurt me, lie your face off. If you learn that someone wants to blow up a building. Lie, lie, lie to protect yourself, or me, or others. If you know that a child will be harmed in some way, lie until the cows come home.

We are an odd lot where we attempt to create universal rules, morals or ethics, that in practice are fatal.

Teaching a child never to lie, for example, leaves them at risk of predators. Teaching a child to fear lying and face harsh consequences leaves them prone to people in power who can abuse them.

There are times for honesty. There are times for deceit.

Answer 4

Its kinda chain reaction, once u deceive sumone u r on a roll to deceive others too, 2 hide the previous one. in that whole process u r deceiving urself too in sum way or the other.

Answer 5

It's worse to deceive yourself. Once you deceive yourself, you will deceive everyone else.

Remember the golden rule. Do on to others, as you want others to do on to you.

Answer 6

Both is bad but deceiving others is more deceitful than deceiving yourself.

If I were to deceive others, they'll get hurt. I don't like that.

If I was to deceive myself and I'll get hurt, fine with me as long as everyone's happy.

Answer 7

The worst thing about deception is that it's deceiving! I say the worst is yourself because you never know you are the one who is deceived. Does that make sense? It does to me.

Answer 8

Both.

You shouldn't decieve others and try your hardest not to decieve yourself, because in the end you'll end up making things worse for two of you. I mean because once you decieve yourself then you will most defenantly decieve someone else since you are lost in your own.

Answer 9

Deceiving self is an injury to self, but not a moral failing.
Deceiving others is an injury to others as well as a moral/ethical failing (which, by the way, hurts the self as well).

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Answer 10

I think decieving others is worse. We can't really decieve ourselves, if you ask me. We can try to - for example we can be in denial, but deep down we know our own truths. The other person, on the other hand, can only take your word for it.