"Prevaricate". The meaning of phraseology will be considered today. Deliberately cheat, is it good or bad?
Value
If you think about it, then everything that is connected with heart and soul in Russian culture is good. If a person speaks from the heart or from the soul, then he speaks sincerely, in a kind manner. If not, you usually hear: "This is not from the heart." Moreover, it doesn’t matter what it is about - a gift or words.
Thus, “to cheat” (the meaning of phraseologism follows) is to speak or act out of conscience, insincerely, and deceive. In everyday speech, bewildered means: to tell a lie or to act differently than you think is necessary. Words or actions that contradict one's own beliefs lead to a distortion of the heart.
Cinematic example
Lawyers and lawyers are not very popular among the people. It is believed that they have no conscience. Hollywood eagerly indulges this conviction by making films about people without beliefs who earn by appearing in court and defending criminals. True, to the credit of screenwriters and directors it must be said that almost all films do not just scour the lawyers for nothing, but they contain a certain moralizing moment.
For example, the 1997 film “Liar, Liar” is just about a person who is used to bewitching (the meaning of phraseology is disclosed a little higher) professionally. At the beginning of the film, the hero of Jim Carrey (Fletcher Reed) is a completely unprincipled person who wants to climb the career ladder and does not make too many roads on his way to his goal. He's lying all the time. Even to his little son. But once Max - the son of Fletcher, made a wish on his birthday so that his father would not lie for at least one day. Of course, for a person like F. Reed, this is a disaster, but as the lawyer learns to say "the truth, only the truth and nothing but the truth," he understands something very important. For example, that to cheat (the meaning of phraseological unit is illustrated by graphic examples) even for the sake of big money is not so good. There are higher values besides material wealth.
When a person is soul-sick in everyday life
The answer to the question posed in the title: unfortunately, almost all the time. People lie:
- At home.
- At work.
- At friends.
And although a person of almost any culture recognizes the theoretical value of perfect and absolute truth, in practice he prefers to smooth corners and deceive his neighbor, but not from evil. At home, a person lies, so as not to offend those he loves. At work, he is forced to cheat so that he is not fired or to earn extra points from his superiors. He lies to friends, as in the first case, because the truth hurts them. The meaning and interpretation of the phrase “cheat” makes us think of a paradox: on the one hand, the truth is very good. A truthful person is very much appreciated; he is called a principal. Honesty is revered among the people. And on the other hand, a person who says “the truth, the truth, and nothing but the truth” is heartless. The latter is quite obvious.
Dr. House: "All people lie." Is this good or bad?
Dr. House is an example of the fact that only a burnt cynic can worship the perfect truth. A brilliant doctor tirelessly scourges the vices of human nature and hides the callousness of his own nature.
Of course, the meaning and interpretation of “bewitching” (phraseological unit) encourages us to say: “Yes, conscious hypocrisy is bad.” But the constant distortion of facts is an integral part of social life. The truth is too bitter to throw handfuls of it to people. There is such a saying, “Better is a bitter truth than a sweet lie,” but in reality people prefer the sweetness of bitterness.
So, to cheat is bad if:
- A person does this in the courtroom, and the fate of other people depends on his sincerity.
- The person is asked to tell the truth.
- This is done for promotion and other benefits.
But it is imperative to cheat if a person knows that the truth will hurt.
But here it is necessary to distinguish pain from narcissism and illusion. If a person knows that, expressing the truth, he will get into a nerve, then it is necessary to abstain, and if he is sure that he will free a person from illusion, from the captivity of narcissism, then you must, without hesitation, hit the target. The difficulty is that the border between one and the other is blurred, and a person can rarely distinguish one from the other.
The value of idioms to pose a soul does not present any particular difficulty and riddles, and one can argue endlessly about the moral conclusions from the expression.