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If Everyone Was Always 100% Honest...

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If everyone was always 100% honest with each other how would the world change?
No exceptions, no wiggle room. Humans literally lose the capacity to lie.

 

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People last a lot less long in jobs.

Divorce rate shoots up.

Murder rate shoots up.

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3 hours ago, IkaBula said:

If everyone was always 100% honest with each other how would the world change?
No exceptions, no wiggle room. Humans literally lose the capacity to lie.

 

My list so far -

 

People last a lot less long in jobs.

Divorce rate shoots up.

Murder rate shoots up.

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People would stop acting mightier than thou and trying to push a public image. 


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I don't think i could take living in that type of society, all the compliments (truth) i would receive on how handsome i am would become tedious.

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8 hours ago, Puddin said:

I don't think i could take living in that type of society, all the compliments (truth) i would receive on how handsome i am would be become tedious.

It would be a horrible burden to bear :P

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Deception is such an ingrained part of human behavior that it's basically impossible to imagine life without it. I will say though, you all tend to believe that people would be unhappy if everyone was honest and everybody would hate everyone else and kill everybody, but I think quite the opposite. I think such things like compliments and insults would not even exist in such a society. They would be meaningless.

 

Also, I read a book once years ago called "My Life As An Experiment" by A.J. Jacobs. He devotes periods of his life to random things like acting like George Washington and pretending to be a woman on a dating site. One of the things he did was exactly what this post is about: he practiced a thing called radical honesty. And it became more than just stating only the truth all the time; it even turned into saying whatever was on one's mind at any particular moment, no matter how weird. His thoughts on his experience doing this were very moving to me at the time, and I would recommend this book to anyone.

 

Also, for those interested:

 

http://radicalhonesty.com/

 

You're all faggots.

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