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Because as a noted author and philosopher Ayn Rand pointed out, it makes you another's slave.

Consider - if you tell someone a lie, you are constructing a false reality. Now, every time you see that person, you must go to the trouble of maintaining that false reality, continuing the old lie, and adding new ones as need be. The person's intelligence becomes your enemy, you need him stupid and gullible.

You end up then - best case scenario - a slave who must continuously pander to the idiocy of the person you lied to.

Best to not lie, and not be a slave, and thus not have to fake anything, or rely on the other's stupidity. Especially as the other probably isn't stupid.

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