What is the purpose of making promises you will not keep?

Answer 1

depends..
sometimes we make promises with the intention of keeping them, but can't stay true. What is the purpose? hmm
but when one knowingly goes in making false promises..well, we end up calling them bad names..

Answer 2

I do not make promises as nobody has ever kept a promise they've made to me but I guess the reason people make a promise that they know they will not be keeping is in an attempt to gain a persons trust or perhaps simply to upset that person at some point. x

Answer 3

I only make a promise that I fully intend to keep. I know things happen to where they don't always work out. But my promises are good.

Answer 4

I won't do that...I don't make any promises that way no one gets hurt, let down or discouraged. I always try to leave with this statement:
"I will do the best I can but no promises."

Answer 5

Well, I've been keeping a promise I made to my Lady. And I've kept it so far. But I have broken just one, which was no big deal. And I didn't mean it. It just slipped. Trust me, girl. Peace!

Answer 6

There is none. A teacher of mine once wrote, "Promises are kept because they do not require keeping." He was a wise man.

Answer 7

Mostly its to not directly hurt the others feelings or perhaps even make them angry. Its supposed to be a gentle way of letting them down with out teas or a fight but it doesnt always work like that. Depends on the situation.

Answer 8

Exactly! And why ask for a promise when you know it can never be kept?

Answer 9

i very rarely make promises for that exact reason!

Answer 10

They're just practing to become Politicians