This is a Response to Misty's Question.

So, I know we kind of touched base on this topic in class today, but I feel as if there is so much more to say on the matter. If only we didn't get off topic and onto the State of the Union Address that is happening tonight. Anyways, Misty asked two questions. I'm not so sure I understand what you were asking in your first question, so I will answer the second. I don't think the world would be better if everyone told the truth. Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean. If people just told the truth more so in general or if people told the truth all the time. If people were to speak the truth all the time sure there would a few benefits, but the negative effects would be more apparent. A world with only truth would be a terrifying place. Imagine the chaos that would break out over the simple truth. The way I see it is that most people like to be lied to. If they are told the truth, if might not be something they want to hear. So, with the simple truth, the world they have constructed for themselves will be destroyed. How many times has someone told you, "Be honest!! Come on, I can take the truth." And then you tell them what you think, the honest truth...and they don't take it well? This tends to be the case. I think that people might really want to hear the truth, but at the same time they don't. So they want your lie to become the truth, a false truth (oxymoron much!?), that they have cornered you into telling. You see, the world cannot function with one extreme. The truth comes with lies, just as good comes with evil. They coexist.The truth cannot exist without lies, because then there would be not truth. It would just be.