• strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    Yeah. This post sounds good, but the actual moral of the story sucks.

    One is “don’t lie all the time or nobody will believe you, even when telling the truth.”

    The other is “nobody will ever believe you, regardless of how truthful you are.”

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      7 days ago

      Is that the moral… I remember one who would say that it is

      Never tell the same lie twice.

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      7 days ago

      One is “don’t lie all the time or nobody will believe you, even when telling the truth.”

      I’m not sure this moral sucks though.

      The other one sucks, but it’s true.

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      7 days ago

      I don’t know the story of Cassandra, but I took the boy who cried wolf to mean “one shouldn’t lie, specifically because it’s easy to keep doing it, and there will be consequences for you personally if you do lie”.

      • velma@sh.itjust.works
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        7 days ago

        Hey TrickDacy, thanks for stopping by - have you had a chance to read the rules for this community?

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            7 days ago

            Nope, just checking, you’re good if you’ve seen them! I’ve seen you around before quite a bit, but not a familiar “face” to me here.

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              7 days ago

              So I read again and saw “women only” in the first rule which before I just read that to mean women’s topics only. Does that mean men aren’t allowed to comment? I didn’t realize that was the case if so.

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                7 days ago

                Ah yes, that does mean that men aren’t allowed to comment here. Very happy to chat about Cassandra or feminism or the patriarchy in another community anytime though! !feminism@lemmy.world is rather active :)