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If everyone said what they were actually thinking, what would happen to society?
Nothing would change, as that is what we are doing now. Thoughtlessly and without reservation we spit out repeated words into digital social voids.
2 min readApr 11, 2022
* Radical honesty sounds like a great idea until someone asks, “Does this dress make me look fat?” Prosocial lying is a sign of empathy and emotional intelligence.
* That is a selection of the strongest and the mentally stable
* As has been said already: softening lies are necessary for a pro-social community. No one wants to hear that their kids are ugly or that they are not very intelligent, however much that might be true.
* It would get better. Not first but in the long run. First people would fight more but once people become…
