The story of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is usually told as a morality tale about lying: a warning that if we tell lies, no one will believe us when we are telling the truth. But the real lesson of the story is about what happens when warnings lose their power. After enough false alarms from the shepherd boy about a make-believe wolf, the villagers stopped listening. They had been conditioned to…
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