Verybigliar

Lying is older than humanity, this much we can all agree on. Animals lie all the time, to protect themselves, or hunt food, or avoid an awkward conversation. The spots on a leopard are an untruth, to convince prey that there is no leopard there, when in fact there is a leopard, RIGHT THERE! Similarly, the viceroy butterfly is a liar – a dirty, filthy liar. But is a lie necessarily a bad thing?

Of course it is. Which is why everything I’ll post on this blog is 100% true.