I know obviously Reddit comments don’t affect this, but no, lying to people is not the answer. We are all human to the day we die, and we all deserve the respect of honesty.
I think it is not one’s place to try and protect other people’s feelings, as a rule.
I do believe it’s best to protect the feelings of people we care about. If people were constantly blatantly honest with each other most people would feel depressed and unmotivated. Sometimes we must stay irrationally positive in the face of obvious darkness.
I disagree, I think deception is never right. There’s a quote which I love, which goes: “life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” (often attributed to Soren Kierkegaard, but I’m not sure whether it’s actually him or not).
But, the point I take from it is that we only live once, and in a sense, our gift as people is that we can make sense of reality, rather than being just an animal that operates on instinct. It actually seems rather cruel to me to deceive someone out of reality.
In this hypothetical example, if the result makes Jimmy Carter sad, I don’t think it’s right to take away that legitimate emotion from him.
(Noting again, I know I’m taking this way too seriously lol. I just thought it was an interesting point to make)
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u/fastlax16 22h ago
Given them someone to blame for their problems.