The problem with lying isn't that your lie won't work, it will work to some extent. Heck it can even do good! I'm sure in this case it did turn down the tempera

The problem with lying isn't that your lie won't work, it will work to some extent. Heck it can even do good! I'm sure in this case it did turn down the temperature momentarily, which may or may not have been good, depending on who you ask. But no, the real problem is that lying spends trust very quickly, trust that you need later, for instance when there is a vaccine on the horizon. Most humans have a baked in BS detector, that stops taking repeat liars seriously. This is a good thing.