I think we all have different personas in different environments or situations. I don’t think that qualifies as “two-faced” in the traditional sense of the term where, metaphorically speaking, you are smiling adoringly at someone while you are slipping a dagger in their back.
Someone who says one thing, but means another. A lot of salesman try to be your friends, but they are not. They are interested in only one thing getting your money for the product or item that they are selling. They will resort to be two faced
Does it count as being two-faced if your intentions are not malicious or nefarious?
For example, I often say I need to “facilitate” as I leave the room - where in reality I’m actually “using the facilities” by which I mean “use the bathroom” by which I mean “gotta go excrete fluids and/or solid matter that I could go into even more detail about should I want to be extremely honest”. So yeah - I’m not being completely honest about my intentions there.
"Which leads me to another question, “Why do people look people in the eye” or should I say, “Why do people say look the other person in the eye” That is totally different from being “two-faced”(as you put it). It could be a matter of upbringing and//or confidence in yourself and/or confidence in the other person. Being able to look someone in the eye has nothing to do with being or not being “two-faced”.
I think it’s a pretty dim view of life if you think that everyone, or at least most people, is two-faced or have some kind of negative intention all the time.
If your question is “is everyone an awful deceptive corrupt person who wishes you ill and wants to stab you in the back and is using sweet words and lies to distract you while they aim the knife”, then the answer is yes, every person is like that. You’re going to die, be killed any minute now.
If the question is “do people sometimes refrain from saying exactly what they’re thinking”, then the answer is no, every person always tells the truth and can withhold nothing.
No. I think the degree varies to which people are honest, open, blunt, impolite, and various other things relating to the timing and truthfulness of communicating their opinions to people, but the population in general do not qualify as “two-faced”.
My question to the OP is this: If you have determined that most people you have met throughout your life are “two-faced”, then are we to assume that you consider us(total strangers) to be “two-faced” in our answers to you?
“If you really believe that honesty is always the best policy, try telling your friends the unvarnished truth about what you think of their offspring.”