{"id":56670,"date":"2024-03-12T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/live-without-harming\/publications\/let-us-avoid-harmful-lies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:35:29","slug":"avoid-harmful-lies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-harmful-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"AVOID HARMFUL LIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"56670\" class=\"elementor elementor-56670 elementor-25446\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-87fd397 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"87fd397\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a7ea72a\" data-id=\"a7ea72a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6eb7809 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6eb7809\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LOVE THE TRUTH! DO NOT TELL HARMFUL LIES<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c90f0de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c90f0de\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-de4d7a8\" data-id=\"de4d7a8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbe8b59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dbe8b59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Diseno-sin-titulo-4.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Diseno-sin-titulo-4-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike innocuous or even white lies, harmful lies\u2014such as defamation, manipulation or scam\u2014cause damage, which can sometimes be very significant.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>DEFAMATION<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This consists of telling falsehoods or half-truths to damage someone&#8217;s reputation and can be directed against:<\/p><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>A specific person, whether an individual or a legal entity.<\/li><\/ul><ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><li>A category of people, such as sexually free women, homosexuals, racial or ethnic groups, etc., malevolently transmitting false negative messages about them.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/promiscuous-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Not sexually free women either<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/never-harm-the-lgbti-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Not even the LGBTQ+ community<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/raise-awareness-of-the-harm-caused-by-racism-ethnicism-nationalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? Be aware of the damage caused by racism, ethnicism, and nationalism <\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes defamers are very subtle, dropping small comments here and there. Occasionally they do so in such a casual, veiled and devious manner <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">that they do not plainly reveal their bad intentions. They may even turn the tables and present themselves as false victims of the outraged innocent party to garner pity and generate anger and rejection against them. They carry out their misdeed in a camouflaged and skillful way, like someone discreetly sprinkling almost imperceptible powder into food, which although appearing to be simple spices, turns out to be arsenic.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because it is like a light rain that, through repetition, gradually soaks in. As Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, said: &#8220;A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth&#8221;. And, what is worse, it predisposes people against the innocent victim. It can lead those who are deceived to anything from distancing themselves from the victim to ostracism, discrimination and verbal, psychological or physical aggression, or even murder.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is what happened with the <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">Jews. In the Middle Ages, there were Catholic priests who spread lies such as that they kidnapped Christian children to use their blood in religious rituals. During the time of the Black Death, which decimated the European population, they claimed that the Hebrews were to blame because they malevolently contaminated the wells.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">It was a vulgar falsehood, as the cause of the bubonic plague was actually a virus that rats brought from Asia via merchant ships. Those small seeds of defamation, those simple little words, were spread and grew into large, malignant plants that bore the fruit of hatred toward Jews for centuries and numerous massacres of innocent people. <\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reject-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">Read FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Reject anti-semitism<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Honorability is something highly valued by most people, and its loss is usually painful. And, what is worse, its destruction through defamation is the basis for objectification and <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">labels that serve as a free pass to degrade and abuse.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-objectify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight );\">Read THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Do not objectify<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-labels-that-give-a-free-pass-to-harm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read THE REVOLUTION OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Avoid labels that are a free pass to cause harm<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">Let&#8217;s see if we can make this concept clear to everyone: THE HONOR AND DIGNITY OF OTHERS ARE SACRED! Unless they have caused some harm that was not in self-defense. Therefore, let us not unfairly devalue others. If someone unjustifiably attacks the honor of another, let us stop them in their tracks. <\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/respect-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Respect others<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/defend-yourself-and-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read AVOID HARM! Defend yourself and others<\/em><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">And let&#8217;s remember the words of Eleanor Roosevelt:<\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cGreat minds discuss ideas.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>Average minds discuss events.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>Small minds discuss people.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>MANIPULATION<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This consists of distorting and misrepresenting reality to influence the behavior of others for our own benefit. Manipulators often take advantage of their victims&#8217; weaknesses, especially profiting from sensitive and kind people. <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">They try to dominate others and sometimes resort to undermining self-esteem and other forms of psychological abuse. <\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">A subcategory includes narratives that justify abuse. Read more in&#8230; <\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reject-narratives-that-justify-cruelty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LOVE THE TRUTH! Dismantle the narratives that justify cruelty<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/say-no-to-narratives-that-justify-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read DO NOT STEAL! Dismantle the narratives that justify theft<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>OTHER TOXIC LIES<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other forms of malicious deception include scams, trickery, schemes, machinations, intrigues, entanglements, shady dealings or skullduggery to benefit ourselves at the expense of harming others.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there is the false excuses given by someone when they have breached an agreement instead of taking responsibility and repairing the breach. Or cases where a hotel receptionist tells a potential guest that there are no rooms left, even though there are, to avoid extra work. Or if a wretched person has done something wrong and unfairly blames another, attempting to put them in the crosshairs instead.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us avoid all these types of meanness and be noble. Let us instill in children and teenagers, in families and schools, the values of honesty and kindness, avoiding both lies and corrosive half-truths. And let us remember what Socrates said: &#8220;The liar&#8217;s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else&#8221;.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/act-with-honesty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: Act with honesty<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/be-a-good-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? 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color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0r_zOrwTRU9jKMsNGkX-Vn\">www.institutodelbienestar.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">LET&#8217;S NOT HARM ANYONE, except in legitimate self-defense against an aggressor.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); color: #ffffff;\">Read:<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); text-decoration-line: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Y-BstuMG-ZGz1yLfoAV21\">other articles from DO NO HARM!&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a495ced elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a495ced\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInDown&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>With the <b>Live Without Harming initiative<\/b>, we strive to prevent any kind of suffering or harm from being caused to you, your loved ones, and others.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE THE TRUTH! DO NOT TELL HARMFUL LIES Unlike innocuous or even white lies, harmful lies\u2014such as defamation, manipulation or scam\u2014cause damage, which can sometimes be very significant. 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