Honesty

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by alex714, Dec 2, 2005.

  1. I lie when I feel the positive done by the lie is greater then the negative weight of the lie....
     
  2. alex714

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    Thats horrible reasoning.
     
  3. in your opinion

    it also depends upon how the lie is weighted


    I personally have a static fairly heavy weight for lies


    if I were to say "well they'll never find out so no damage done" it'd be bad reasoning, as it is as the system works now, it's perfectly good reasoning
     
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    poor reasoning.

    The fact that you can posit the weight of the outcome of a lie in comparison to anything else shows as much. No matter how much you want it to be relative.
     
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    I take back my claim

    I learned a cruel lesson of hypocrisy in another thread.
     
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    you kant do that.
     
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    clever!


    but I spoke to soon with what I said


    although, I wouldnt seriously want someone to lie to make me feel better. How come I knew this thread would be dangerous?
     
  8. because it's a dangerous subject...
     
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    loving the use of dangerous, I must say.


    But seriously folks, how do you propose we deal with the categorical imperative?
     
  10. weigh a lie the same as a cold blooded murder and feel that they are only imperitive if one will halt the other or greater.......
     
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    can I still particapte even as a hypocrit?
     
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    we could do that, but then they might call us gypsys or something. I for one can't tell the future. Unless I live in a fantasy world where I know for absolute certain that such and such events are corresponding and will transpire.
     
  13. I don't know.... all those typos....

    people here don't like mispellers (you should hear the shit I get for it)

    we might end up lowering our credibility letting someone who has that sort of typoage participate.....
     
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    and immediate, i guess. that'd be really important too.
     
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    only if you change your username.
     
  16. just pick fair probablilities, lets say above 60%?
     
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    fuck, i cant help my spelling, its a problem....i know

    i'm a smart person though. actually....you two are making me feel slightly stupid.
     
  18. just down some hard liquor, we'll piss you off so much you won't be able to feel slightly stupid any more....

    (and I was making a joke about hipocrisy, come on, take it, chuckle, it was subtle, but, I mean come on..... I need to start tagging again....)
     
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    what if we're wrong?
     
  20. then we've lied, we were wrong, we had a better then half probability of being right, we tried, I don't feel the occasion of this occuring is going to be so often that one will become too incredible from it....
     
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