Reply #58: ...sounds very Freudian. Perhaps there are lots of types of lies and liars

[Wordie]

because it seems to me that while what you are saying could be one explanation, there are plenty of other ones as well.

And, nearly everyone responding to this thread has taking a "lying as sin" sort of approach. And it isn't, always. What about those who lie for altruistic purposes? (For instance, to protect an innocent person from an oppressor.) What about their white-to-gray matter ratio? What about white lies?