Jessica Rodriguez: Reaction to "The Lie Detector" by Lewis Thomas (Blog # 17)

In my point of view lie detectors are useful. Although they should not 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 personally agree and disagreed with Lewis Thomas in this essay. After we tell a lie to somebody we feel guilty, our body and brain feels different we start sweating and get really nervous because we know that we are doing something wrong especially if is a member of the family or our best friend, someone that we care about. In those cases I think that lying is wrong. There are other cases where I consider lying is appropriate for example when I go to eat at my grandmother's house and she ask who cooks better between my mother and her of course I have to make a little lie and tell her that she is the best cooker in the world, that way she won’t feel bad. Therefore lie detectors work most of the times but not always because there is people that are very nervous all the time so they can’t be submitted to a lie detector test. Humans have a tendency to lie for some reason and it is really hard to trust someone but you can never know what a person is thinking or feeling inside. You only hear what the persons telling you and what they want you to hear. Lie detectors might be correct in some cases but you can’t ever really know the truth. That is when trusting someone comes in hand. You need to believe in what you’re hearing and what they’re telling you. Some people make that hard but there are some good people in this world and not everyone is always lying.