WhipTheHip
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ORIGINAL: ScooterTrash If they had to lie about their age, I would wonder what else they would think was appropriate to lie about...sure sign of things to come. Personally, I don't care about someone's age, but I would expect to at least be given valid information. Myself....I'm still upright, healthy and all the original equipment parts work fine...I'd be more inclined to brag about my age...lol. Anyone who says they never lie tells themself the biggest lie of all. All adults lie. I've known lots of people who claim they never lie, and discovered they tell real whoppers when it suits them. Some information is personal. I don't know why strangers think they have a right to know anything personal about someone they are not ready to marry. I used to manage a hotel, and guests would always ask me to see rooms that were not yet ready to show. They would tell me they could imagine what the room would look like when it was clean. In ten years of managing that hotel, no potential guest ever rented a room that had not been cleaned up. People who say they don't judge people by superficial things such as age are just full of shit. What twenty year old is going to have any romantic image in a seventy-six year old? Most people say they look younger than their age, when in fact they look older. If people constantly mistake someone for being ten or twenty years younger than they really are, they are doing a disservice to themselves by telling others their real age, because no one will believe how young they really look. You are not your passport age. Different people age differently. Different body organs age differently. You can't use a person's age to determine their emotional and sexual maturity, their intellctual maturity, or anything else about them. Michael J. Fox looks and acts much younger than he is. When a stranger asks you how much you weigh, do you substract anything from your actual weight? When someone asks you how much money you make, do you tell them you are unemployed if you are between jobs? Do you tell strangers your net worth, and exactly how much money you've made every year of your life? What is your IQ? What was your SAT score? If a stranger asks if you have ever had a venereal disease do you tell them you have herpes? If a stranger asks your penis size, do you add inches? What do you say if you are Tiny Tim? If a stranger asks if you suffer from bulimia or aneroxia are you obligated to tell them? If your boss is in, and he tells you to tell callers he is out, do you tell the truth and lose your job? Police and law enforcement lie all the time. Some of it is part of their job and legitimate, and some of it is unethical. There is a difference between merely lying and being dishonest. The dishonest person attempts to cheat others. I've heard people say that you can judge a person by observing if they ever speed while driving. If someone is willing to break the law and drive five miles over the speed limit, this is a clear indication they have no respect for the law, and you can never know what other laws they might guilty of breaking. They could be a serial killer or an ax murderer. You never know. Anyone who breaks any law is a criminal, and is therefore capable of doing anything. Or so their logic goes. I am a very open person, and have no secrets. People tell me things they have never told anyone in their life including any of their past lovers or partners. The reason is because I am so open and so non-judgmental. But this is with people I know. If I have never met person, I don't see any obligation to tell them every little personal thing about me. Telling people your true age is not such a big deal unless you look so much younger than you really are that strangers think you are lying when you tell them your real age. Best regards, Michael
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