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Chernobyl - The Cost of Lies

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What is the cost of lies?

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It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth.

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The real danger is that if we hear enough lies,

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then we no longer recognize the truth at all.

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What can we do then?

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What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth

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and content ourselves instead with stories?

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In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are.

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All we want to know is: who is to blame?

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Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.

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Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

Chernobyl - The Cost of Lies

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What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then? What else is left but to abandon even the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories? In these stories, it doesn't matter who the heroes are. All we want to know is: who is to blame? Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

Traducao (Portugues)

Qual é o custo das mentiras? Não é que vamos confundi-las com a verdade. O verdadeiro perigo é que se ouvirmos mentiras suficientes, então não reconheceremos mais a verdade. O que podemos fazer então? O que mais resta senão abandonar até a esperança da verdade e nos contentarmos com histórias? Nessas histórias, não importa quem são os heróis. Tudo que queremos saber é: quem é o culpado? Cada mentira que contamos cria uma dívida com a verdade. Cedo ou tarde, essa dívida é paga.

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