Lies
We are probably lied to almost every day. Sometimes we are
very aware of the lie, like when a politician says "no new
taxes". However, there are many more subtle lies that aren't
so easily spotted. Here are some of those.
Bigger Is Always Cheaper
This used to be true. "Family" or "institutional"
size cans, jars and packages of food should cost less per ounce.
Unfortunately, some retailers have recently been overpricing
large items, probably because they know that many will assume
they are the better buy without doing the math. Always take a
look at the price per ounce or pound.
News Reporting Can Be Objective
There are an unlimited number of potential "stories,"
but limited time or paper. Should a reporter cover the building
of a new school, or the opening of a new clothing store, or the
famine in some African country? Even when every fact is correct,
choosing to cover one story over another reveals a bias, as does
choosing how to cover it. Isn't it better to simply understand
what those biases are than to pretend that news can be objective?
Alternative Medicines Are Dangerous
They are dangerous compared to what? Doctors have thousand
dying every year on the operating table and no one says a thing.
But if just one person dies from after using an herb or alternative
treatment - even if thousands have been saved by it - there are
calls for it to be banned. Any treatment has its risks, but let's
be fair in our comparisons.
Statistics Are Always Objective
The "objectivity" of statistics is all in how they
are used. Suppose an oil company's profit on assets rises from
4% one year to 8% the next. Did profits rise by 4% or 100%? It
depends on who's counting. Rising 4% to an 8% profit might still
put them below the profit levels of most businesses, as they
might honestly point out. But then they did make a 100% more
money, a reporter might note, in order to whip up an anti-oil
company "story".
If This Law Saves One Life It's Worth It
We can each rightfully put an unlimited value on our own lives.
Laws and actions to save other lives, however, have to take into
account the cost. We could save 45,000 lives by strictly limiting
highway speeds to 20 miles per hour, but that is too high a price
for us. The proper question perhaps, is how much it is actually
worth to us to save a life. Approached in this honest way, more
lives will be saved, because regulations will be aimed at maximum
efficiency in saving lives.
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five lies were excerpted from the e-book, "99 Lies".
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