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I'm new to this blog, and to blogs in general. Forgive any faux pas.

I just found this blog from a 2008 thread about "Sex, Nerds, and Entitlement." That thread and this one are related. In that thread, Michael Vassar talked about the erroneous instructions we are given as children, where relationships are concerned. He seemed to say that we should know better than to believe our parents. I wish I had known about this blog then so I could have asked, "Given that parents are adults, and should know the truth, why would parents deliberately give their children information that is invalid, and counterproductive from an evolutionary standpoint?"

This thread seems to be saying that we should know better than to believe anyone, and that we choose to be gullible. I find this a little problematic and startling. (But then again, I did say I'm new here.)

Am I correct in seeing that both this post and the previous one are making the following points? "I'm a bad person because, as a child, I believed my parents?" "People with Aspergers "choose" to be gullible?" "People should not believe each other." "People who trust other people do so out of laziness." "Liars are doing nothing wrong, and deserve to win if they can get people to believe their lies?"

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You asked the wrong question. You can distinguish (I hope) lies from the truth.

Your assumption is also baseless (2nd paragraph).

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