If you were of the belief that by telling a lie or group of lies, you could enhance the quality of life of all those around you, would you do it?
2007-07-17 00:29:57 · 28 answers · asked by Link , Padawan of Yoda 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't ask if lies could make the world a better place, I asked: If you believed it would, would you then do it.
2007-07-17 00:45:56 · update #1
Fer shure
2007-07-17 00:32:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. I tend to think that my personal beliefs do not necessarily reflect reality, therefore I hesitate to impose them on anybody. Besides, there's the law of unintended consequences -- you can't predict all the possible results of any action, so it makes little sense to choose a risky course of action.
Of course I'm aware that people have created Big Lies with which to change things; some of these people must have been decent and well-intentioned, but some were thoroughly unpleasant characters: Martin Luther, Josef Goebbels and V.I. Lenin come immediately to mind, but the list is long.
2007-07-17 07:38:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the biggest problems with modern society is that much of its governments are based on lies and have caused no end of problems. I believe if we lived in a world where truth was the only way...then the world would be a better place.
Best wishes, Mike.
2007-07-19 06:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by georgiansilver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i would not
because if you did and the lie got out the world be be in much worse shape than before
people would be mad they were lied too
not only that if you lied the world would be based on something evil
and no matter what evil acting like a good thing is a lie!!!
the world would be a lie and it would distroy itself!!!!
2007-07-17 07:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by sutton_phs1 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We all lie everyday, i.e. no darling I got them in the sale, no you don't look fat, no I only had 1 cream cake
If it makes the world a better place yes I would lie. And by the way your backside does look big, lol
2007-07-17 07:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs M 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Lies get found out, and then no one would ever believe you again.
Well, in ideal world anyway. Peter Popoff and Pat Robertson have been caught in many, many lies and people still flock to them.
2007-07-17 13:45:37 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible's a pack of lies. Whether it makes anybodies life any better I doubt it. wastes every bodies life believing in something that does not exist.
2007-07-17 07:38:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Hell yes! After all, religion has been making peoples lives better for years through lies, so why not.
Sorry, not "lies", lets call them "unsubstantiated claims" :-)
2007-07-17 07:35:14 · answer #8 · answered by Steven N 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't the world run on lies already? So surly the truth would answer!!
2007-07-17 09:30:27 · answer #9 · answered by Pooh Face 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the lie were something like "you look great in that dress", or "that is a beautiful baby!", sure. If it was "There is an afterlife where you will be happy forever", no.
2007-07-17 07:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Quite possibly.
2007-07-17 17:49:44 · answer #11 · answered by davidifyouknowme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋