Fundamentally dishonest professions?

[anotherlife]

What would be the list of fundamentally dishonest professions? The professions, where you can't last a day with honesty, and you must be dishonest beyond your self awareness, to consider working there.

It would be easy to start with the whores, but whores are not dishonest, they sell what they have. Or we could take the used car salesman but the used car salesman knows that it is all a game. So does the politician. But what are the professions that don't even have this minimal level of intelligence?

Let's start with the human resources profession. There you are the front operations for the corporate power boys, but you believe that you serve the employees, not their opponents. The other one is the news reporter or half of all journalists. They say what they are paid to say, but they believe that they say the truth. Many parents are in this category too, because they aggressively proclaim to work the child's interest whereas it is all about their own interests.

 

[Asclepias]

Cops. Everyday they see a violation of the law from their peers and never report it. An omission of the truth is the same as being dishonest.

 

[leftwinger]

Lawyers.

 

[Asclepias]

Any type of sales person.

 

[Mr. H.]

Me. I'm in the oil business.

Oh, and fuck you.

 

[Agit8r]

TV preachers

A lot of other religious leaders, for that matter...

 

[TheOldSchool]

All of the above are good ones except for "cops." I believe that the overwhelming majority of cops are doing their best to be honest.

 

[Muhammed]

All of the above are good ones except for "cops." I believe that the overwhelming majority of cops are doing their best to be honest.

Cops actually receive training on how to lie convincingly.

 

[waltky]

Brains Can Get Desensitized To Dishonesty...

Lying may be your brain's fault, honestly
October 25, 2016 • Telling small lies leads to telling bigger ones, study says

The lies start small and then they grow. We've all seen this, in news reports, among our friends and family, in ourselves. Understanding why people are dishonest is complicated. Theories about that have been the subject of psychology and sociology books. But could there be a biological component at play? New research that focused on a specific region in our brains suggests there is. "When we lie for personal gain, our amygdala produces a negative feeling that limits the extent to which we are prepared to lie," said Tali Sharot, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London. "However, this response fades as we continue to lie, and the more it (fades) the bigger our lies become." A decreased amygdala response, in other words, may help explain the "slippery slope" of lying, said Sharot, one of the authors of "The Human Brain Adapts to Dishonesty," just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

When lying gets easier

The scientists involved in this research tapped Neurosynth, a platform that culls thousands of maps of brain activity, to identify parts of the brain associated with emotion. While the amygdala, located deep in our temporal lobes, wasn't the exclusive region highlighted, it predominated, researchers said. So when the neuroscientists set out to look at how the brain changes while lying, they focused on that region. A study was devised in which participants were partnered with someone else and then put into a brain-imaging scanner. They were shown images of a glass jar filled with pennies and asked to advise their partners (who had a blurry image) about the amount of money in the jar -- thereby establishing a baseline.

Without telling participants to be dishonest, the researchers switched incentives. In one approach, they incentivized them to lie by saying that if they got their partners to overestimate the amounts it would entitle the participant to a bigger cut of a financial reward. The researchers found that when dishonesty served the participants, they were more inclined to lie. The more they lied, the less their amygdala lit up. "If someone lies repeatedly, they no longer have an emotional response when they lie," explained Sharot. "In absence of an emotional response, they feel more comfortable and lie more." The concept, she said, isn't exclusive to emotions.

Consider this: A cold pool feels unbearable at first, and then you adapt. A woman drenched in the perfume she's worn for ages doesn't notice the smell, but strangers recoil. Gruesome photographs are less difficult to look at the second, third, fourth time around. Similarly, small lies can desensitize our brains to the negative feelings associated with lying, which opens the door to more significant lies. And the more often we're dishonest about something, the easier it is to continue being dishonest. Take, for instance, a person who cheats on their taxes, Sharot said. The first time, that person is likely to feel guilt-ridden, nervous or scared. Over time, the cheating gets a lot easier.

Another way to look at this

 

[Aparaco]

Lawyers. Most of the time they are paid to be dishonest)

 

[Gagafritz]

Dentists . They dont tell u all your options . Just the most expensive treatment . They dont give a rats arse if you have severe tooth pain. See u in 6 weeks.

 

[Desperado]

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