What would our world be like if everyone on it could read each others mind at any time without a way to block anything from anyone. please give a realistic response if you can of todays world under those circumstances.
2007-07-20 09:22:57 · 9 answers · asked by lumendelsol 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
The only thing it would eliminate is lying. It might also reduce the need for speaking with our mouths.
2007-07-20 17:15:21 · answer #1 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At first glance it may seem like a good idea. Honesty is, after all, a good policy, and lying would go right out the window. However, there is such a thing as too much honesty, and there aren't many people who can handle complete honesty. You'd have a fallout in international negotiations, neighbors going for each others throats and couples throwing pots and pans at each other ("What do you mean you can't stand the way I eat my soup?!!") All the news you get about yourself or others would be blunt; no softening of the blow with well considered phrases. Speaking before thinking is a bad thing; I can't imagine a world where the problem is thinking before you speak.
Then there are the parents, out for blood because little Johnny or Jane picked up thoughts of lurid sex acts from some guy or gal on the next blanket at the beach.
Bad, bad, bad.
The only benefit would be in the judicial system and maybe the elimination of false advertising (which is pretty much all advertising).
2007-07-20 16:34:48 · answer #2 · answered by Judy L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those that could handle it without going crazy would live in a much nicer world. There would no longer be any lying, you would know before the person spoke what they would say and what their intentions were.
Clubs would become obsolete as the chase would no longer be a chase the woman would know the guys intentions and the guy would know if he were getting any. The possibilities here are endless.
2007-07-20 16:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by Diogenes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the world would be dysfunctional. People who suffer from paranoid delusions, such as schizophrenics without proper medication, often believe other people are reading their minds. It agitates them.
2007-07-20 17:00:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would have no crime because everyone would know what everyone else is doing.
2007-07-20 17:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Redeemer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a movie I saw once.
2007-07-20 16:41:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there would be enough aspirin, to make this be true : }
2007-07-22 13:38:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm interesting.
2007-07-20 16:27:26 · answer #8 · answered by Lexis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard that! that to! oh yea!...quiet out there
2007-07-20 16:31:47 · answer #9 · answered by mason proffit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋