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In Reply to: Maybe, however (on the issue of rape) posted by Acheick on April 08, 2002 at 00:02:28:
" It's a known fact that the person most likely to murder you is someone you know and someone very close to you."
For the very same reason that a person close to you may also lie about the facts of the situation. Emotional distortion and justification of dishonesty are heightened when one considers one's immediate situation unfair. Their tends to be a type of "frontier justice" enacted simply "because". In one's own mind, there is the thought that certain things just "ought to be so", and therefore goes about "making them so" by whatever means works, whether it be dishonesty, or whatever other means are at hand.
In any close situation this phenomenon exists. It is best stated in the popular phrase, "familiarity breeds contempt". The use of the word "contempt" simply means that one feels they are somehow better than, and therefore more deserving than the other. Mutual respect erodes, and "street rules" apply, including "dirty fighting". Because of this, lying is at times justified, in order to bring about the desired, and indignantly expected results. The standards of righteousness are internal, rather than externally derived, and can cross all socially accepted lines.
Lying and exaggeration, another form of lying, is not uncommon in various situations of closeness. The stakes are high, and much to be gained in the process.
Do you see what I mean?
