Would you remove the ability to LIE? | Would You Touch It?

If you could press a button and immediately make it impossible for people to lie, would you touch it?
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[@ahickey]

They come close to touching on what it would mean to not be able to lie but just miss the mark.... If you could not lie there would be no more actors, children would not have the ability to pretend, and there would be no stories.

[@JonGardner]

100% agree. There is so much untapped potential in exploring and defining the parameters of pressing the button. You're absolutely right about the button abolishing fictions of all kinds, including actors, books, etc.

[@aceundead4750]

Music would be vastly different if it existed.

[@charlesrense5199]

This question should be more of a tradeoff. For example: you can like big butts, but cannot lie, OR you can lie, but you don't like big butts.

[@JonGardner]

Topic suggestion: pressing the button gives every person some extent knowledge of the future. The extent of foreknowledge probably affects whether or not one wants to press the button. Obviously foreknowledge of the person’s entire remaining lifespan would be absurdly over-powered, but perhaps ten to sixty seconds of foreknowledge might be more acceptable to press the button. Explore the parameters of pressing the button, not just the consequences of a single parameter or a very narrow set of parameters.

[@Runge_was_here]

If it ment that humanity had never been able to lie and we evolved as a species with that as the case over time, then I push the button. If it ment we are exactly how we already are but we just can't lie going forward i would not as I think society collapses and the world destroys itself. 😂

[@JuggaloJohn]

comment for the algo