Interesting Question

If you were held accountable for your lies would you continue to lie?  And I mean accountable for even the littlest, tiniest of lies.  Like the time you remembered to take out the garbage but didn't because you were being lazy/rebellious/an ass, and then when you were confronted by your mother/wife/any other woman in your life you simple advised that "you forgot"?  Would you make a true effort to not lie or would you just lose the guilt?

My initial thought is that you would try not to lie for a long time (a week sounds like a long time) then you would slip up, you'd let a little lie fly and feel completely like shit.  But you'd admit it because that is the experiment I'm proposing and you'd find that the repercussion was not as bad as you expected, but you have a conscious and you'd try harder.  The the next lie slips out and you admit it and again not so bad again.  Now you're realizing that admitting your faults makes you a better person and the faults are what truly makes you YOU. So you stop trying not to lie and you go make to your normal ways and when you make a mistake you admit it and that's that.  I don't believe you would stop lying altogether and I don't believe in the long run your lies would decrease.  They might get smaller and that's a good thing but I don't think it's in our nature not to lie.

So test yourself.  If your uncomfortable sharing your lies just keep a log for yourself and review them at the end of each week.  See if the lies made a difference to the outcome of whatever you lied about.  See if they were necessary.  Personally I'm going to keep a list on me and log them as they happen.  I want to see how often I do lie, the outcome/worth of the lie, and other points I'm sure I'll figure out later on.  I want to see if my theory is right.  At the end of the week I'll post my lies, what's the use of me proposing this test if I have nothing to lose, right?

I'll post a link to my log (sounds perverted) in the next day or two, I honestly just came up with this and have nothing prepared.  And just because I'm going to try not to lie don't try to call me out on stuff, you might not want the truth!  Just remember, most of the lies people tell are not malicious, they're to protect the feelings of others.