
The Nature of Tears, Part 3
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Crocodile Tears
The idea that tears on purpose cannot be real s, and as we'll discuss, this does not seem to be the case. The idea with the crocodile here is that a crocodile sheds false tears for the prey it has just killed. And this tends to depict something sinister about the crocodile and something dupliquitous about the human you're talking about. Like, oh, that politician's shedding crocodile tears. This person shedding crocodile Tears which is to say, they're putting on a false face of emotion. Theyare intentionally being emotional, or even if maybe, in some literal cases, they are literally shedding tears, and you doubt the authenticity of those tears? Yes?
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