TheLie Detector

The Lie Detector
By Lewis Thomas
In my point of view lie detectors are useful. Although they should be the last measure because they aren't one hundred percent efficient, they may sometimes or most of the times do their job. In other words, I disagree with Lewis Thomas. People can’t be trusted most of the time, most importantly those who would get penalized for it. Very good examples of this would be rapists, murderers, and those who are unfaithful to their wife or husband. Although this may be considered inhuman, it is sometimes necessary because if people were to always tell the truth and wouldn’t betray a trust, our society would be perfect, but it isn’t. Obviously this is because we are humans bound to lie whether for our own good, to protect someone or to just tell a plain lie to get the rush of it. People lie for all reasons and trust me if their life or their money depends in it they will lie double if they have to in order to save themselves. As I have said before we are selfish little animals and the only things that separates us from those living in the wild is our clothes and coordination. We are humans and as humans we are bound to make mistakes and this is one of our most common one.