This Is The Truth

Lie detector tests really bug me. I hate how people use them on talk shows to prove if someone is guilty or not. It doesn't even matter if the person takes the test, because if they don't they are automatically assumed guilty. Let me explain my dislike. First of all, lie detector tests make us assume that the truth is black or white. "Truth" is way more subjective than that. What is one person's "truth" may not be another person's "truth". Secondly, everyone remembers things differently. There is no "perfect" recording in anyone's mind. But what if you do have a video recording of what happened? Wouldn't that prove the "truth"? Not necessarily. Say there is a video that shows a man putting some sort of liquid into a woman's soup. The woman eats the soup and then she dies. You might say, "Well that man poisoned the woman to kill her." But what if the man thought he was putting medicine in the soup and it just so happened that the woman had a bad reaction and died? Or what if the woman's dying had nothing to do with eating the soup? What if the soup was already poisoned by someone else before the recording started? Or, what if the man did put poison in the soup, but he didn't think it would be enough to kill the woman? There are a million different scenarios as to what the "truth" is. So if the man is given a lie detector test and asked, 'Did you poison the woman?', he could say 'yes' or 'no' and it could show up as a lie or the truth either way. That doesn't prove anything. Maybe he says 'yes' because the felt like he caused her death even though he didn't intentionally poison her. Maybe he said 'no' because he didn't intentionally kill her, but it came up as a lie because deep down he still feels responsible. It is ridiculous to me that people put so much faith in lie detector tests. I used to like watching the Dr. Phil Show, but I don't like it as much any more, partially because they started using lie detector tests a lot. I just hope I am never in a situation where I am pressured to take a lie detector test. Then a will be screwed, either by the test or by public opinion of not taking the test.