8 Ways To Tell The Perfect Lie

5. The Best Lies Are Truths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81RqEnvczV8 Let's say you're caught out in a lie. You tell your parents you're going to a friend's house to study, when you're really going partying and it's a school night. They catch you sneaking in, much later and ask you to explain yourself and you really don't want to tell them you've taken MDMA. You could say you're totally sober, that you just were studying late but let's be honest, your face will say differently (more on that later). Rather, you tell them you were partying and that you drank 3 shots of Tequila and a Vodka-Red Bull. This is a lie, you've taken MDMA but the partying part was true. What's more... it's verifiable. By friends, Facebook photos and the smell of your breath. Plus, it's not really that bad. What parent wouldn't rather hear their teenage daughter was drinking alcohol, rather than taking a hit of MDMA? Ironic, as a hit of pure MDMA is far less harmful to the human body than, say, alcohol... but that's a discussion for another time. These 'hybrid lies' are often effective in emergency situations, as a pacifier. Indeed, during elaborate schemes, relative to daily life or purely fictional, a master liar will deliberately throw one of these in- as a perfect lie must imitate the truth. Our detective, under the guise of a hacker, taken in by the criminals and strung up to a wall, shirtless and with impeccable abs, deliberately tells a lie he know will be discovered. He feeds them something it appears he wants to protect with a lie- such as some hidden motive for wanting to steal from them. It's discovered, he comes clean; explaining the reason for his lie as an attempt to protect his superiors. Dodgy, right? He's basically admitting to the criminals that he can and will lie to them. Well, who wouldn't? That's real. We all would lie if we thought it might help protect others we care for. It's understandable and it's real. If you provide some sort of verifiable fact to back it up, all the more to you! One way of catching people out in a lie is in its perfection. The truth is never perfect.