That's among the most dangerous sentences in existence.
First of all, it indicates to me, when you say that, that you're lying about your history of lying. Everybody has lied at some point in his or her life. Everybody knows that nobody actually needs a reason to lie. We've all had a moment when we've told a lie and then examined our own minds, mystified about why we told the lie.
When it comes to the most egregious lies, I'd still like to think that most people wouldn't tell them. I also understand why people may look for a sense of scale. It's easy to accept little motivation for "little, white lies." When it comes to big lies, we tend to want big motivations.
The thing is, we take the issue of lying too far here. We don't even ask for motivations of scale for crimes like murder or rape. We're usually satisfied with, "just a human monster" as a motivation for those crimes for the most part.
Oftentimes, that's true.
Sometimes motivations for lies are fairly clear.
Money is a common motivation.
Nobody would lie about a hate crime?
Well, Jussie Smollett?
People say that nobody lies about rape -- which is true the overwhelming majority of the time. Still, the woman whose false accusation landed Brian Banks in prison had a clear financial motivation. She claimed that the rape happened on school grounds in order to sue the district for $1.5 million.
Emma Sulkowicz definitely gained some fame from her lies. She became a political hero among leftists for a sustained period of time even after completely losing credibility in the minds of reasonable people. I'm sure there were financial benefits there.
Matt Ariza's accuser seems to simply be embarrassed that she lost count of the number of men that she had sex with in one night. Even her own friends don't support her story.
That's not a motivation on scale with the lie; but, it's a lie that was told.
Recently, we hear that nobody would ever lie about being trans.
"Why would anybody lie to become more oppressed?"
Can nobody see the real-life scenarios in which somebody -- particularly a sick-headed man -- could benefit from an intersectional mind-set?
If Jessica Yaniv were still Jonathan Yaniv when he was scheduling brazilian waxes from women, and demanding that they touch his junk, he would have been arrested for that. Since he came out as a woman, he actually got his lawsuits against the women who refused heard in court. If Jessica were still Jonathan when promoting a clothing-optional pool party for teenage girls, the wokesters would be calling for him to be castrated (and I would be with them). Since he claims to be a woman, the wokesters sweep it under the rug.
Scott McLaughlin murdered his ex-girlfriend and raped her dead body. He was sentenced to death (I'm still against the death penalty). McLaughlin identified as a man until Missouri changed its prison policies to allow males to petition to be sent to women's prisons if they identify as women.
Suddenly, Scott became Amber.
Huh, maybe, just maybe, this convicted murderer and rapist with nothing to lose had everything to gain by lying about being trans?
Thankfully, Missouri didn't buy it, and Scott is no longer with us. Still, the corporate media are still taking this monster at his word, and using the pronouns that he claims to have preferred, and referring to him as the first trans woman to ever be executed.
This idea that some subjects are never lied about is making people stupid. We have all the evidence in the world that certain people have lied about these supposedly off-limits when it comes to lying.
There are bad people who will lie about anything for the slightest gain.
Someday soon, we're gonna have to accept that.