The Importance of Speaking the Truth

Sam Harris: Would you grant that there are pathological experiences of meaning, meaning that is actually based on a misconception or divorced from the truth? He says serial killers seem to have to live on the edge of their pathology in order to continue to be rewarded by it. And then of course, there's a situation with schizophrenics where the underlying mechanisms that produce the sense of meaning actually go astray.Harris: If you're going to let your intrinsic sense of meaning serve as a guide through life, then you have to ally yourself with the commitment to speak the truth and not lie.