Caps, do you feel you are a human lie detector?

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I feel pretty certain that I can tell when someone is lying to me. It's like a red light flashes in my head. I have friends of other signs who can hear the same thing I just heard and shrug it off like...meh.

I have read that we might be overly paranoid and mistrusting. I don't believe that. I think we're just cautious about people's intentions. Fellow caps, do you know for certain when someone is lying? Do you call them on it? I tend to say to myself "hmmm...liar, got it" and then treat that person accordingly instead of calling them out. Feels like my intelligence has been insulted and now I am disgusted with them.
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Posted by iCloud9
i by default assume no one is telling 100% truth most times and that does not bother me. people tell lies all the time to cover their arses, white lies to avoid unpleasantry, and keep a difference face at work / in public. truth is overrated. if i want the truth badly, i go find that out myself but most times it's simply not that important.
Why do you think the truth is overrated? If you have to go find it, doesn't it make you feel differently about the person?