Would You Rather: Never be able to lie or Never be believed when telling the truth?
Would you rather Never be able to lie or Never be believed when telling the truth? What other people think of us shapes everything. "Never be able to lie" or "Never be believed when telling the truth" — which judgment could you bear? Consider what it would actually mean to choose "Never be able to lie". You would wake up each morning in a world where this was your reality. The practical implications alone would reshape your routines, your relationships, and the way you think about yourself. For someone in the social domain, this choice carries specific weight — it is not abstract. It would change how you move through the world in ways that are hard to predict from the outside. "Never be believed when telling the truth" deserves the same scrutiny. At first, it might seem like the safer or more reasonable option. But safety has its own costs. Choosing this path means closing the door on what "Never be able to lie" offered, and over time, that closed door can become the thing you think about most. In social dilemmas specifically, the option that seems less dramatic often turns out to be more life-altering in practice. What makes this question genuinely difficult is that both options feel like losses. You are not choosing between a good thing and a bad thing. You are choosing between two different kinds of limitation. With 7,233 votes cast and a 79%-21%.