http://existentialcomics.com/comic/46
I found this comic awhile ago (I remembered it when Dr. Johnson talked about the 2nd example on Wednesday) depicting Sartre and an example situation similar to the one we spoke about in class about the passive woman on a date. This comic shows Sartre casually strolling through town where he sees the couple on a date and decides to listen in. He begins to question whether or not the two are being sincere, or rather passively responding in order to be indecisive and self deceptive.
We spoke about bad faith and "lying to oneself," as well as being able to make a distinction between the "doing" and the "being" when acting sincere. Sartre believes "bad faith" is not being true to yourself and denying your own freedom, which both were doing in this situation.
He interrupts and asks whether or not they're acting in bad faith, and the two come to realize that they were both feigning interest to avoid what they truly feel (the woman wanting to go home and the man offering to go to a party to be polite). Neither truly liked each other, but rather passively showed interest to not seem rude or off-putting. Sartre follows up and says that they should have been "authentic" all along, because if not, the couple would've pretended to be interested in each other when in reality they weren't compatible.
Situations like this occur every day, why do you think we have a habit of "bad faith," instead of always being true to ourselves? Is it better to feign interest and be polite than it is to be honest with how you truly feel? What did you think about the comic?
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