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Poll: Would you tell a "white lie"?
- ljf 16y agoYou do realise that the no votes will most likely be lies too? ;)
- davidst 16y agoOf course, it's only a matter of time before Linux succeeds on the desktop.
- kemayo 16y agoI'm curious about how "depends on the situation" interacts with the definition of "white lie", which I've always understood to mean "a harmless lie, generally told to be polite." I'd think that most cases one might come up with as being bad times to tell a white lie would be be cases where it's not actually harmless. Besides, almost everyone is going to answer "fine"/similar to "how's it going?" regardless of how their day has really been. :)
- lukeqsee 16y agoI was just to delete that option. (And have since deleted.) I realized it was a bit oxymoronical.
- cperciva 16y agoDoes "white lie" include diplomatic fictions? I've been known to say things like "pleased to meet you" when I really couldn't care less about meeting the person in question; but I'm not sure that it's fair to call this a white lie, since it's a social pleasantry which everybody knows doesn't actually mean what it says. If you limit "white lie" to mean things like "yes, your vegetable casserole was delicious", then no, I don't think I do tell white lies. (I have gotten very good at not answering questions, though.)
- scottw 16y agoI marked 'no' but that's not a completely true answer.
- burgerbrain 16y agoI marked no, because I commonly do tell white lies (particularly on polls).
- bradleyland 16y agoI marked yes & no, because the best way to avoid the truth is to be ambiguous. I'd rather be described as unclear than dishonest.
- fezzl 16y agoI would even tell a non-white lie.
- jimwise 16y agoThat depends. Do those jeans make your ass look fat?