You can quote me later!

I remember that some two years ago I was doing the regular shower time thinking, and kept hoping that there would come an answer as to how to incentivize truth telling - because people just were not doing it enough! So, I was thinking of how to create such an environment. I did not know then that there are economists that have theorized on creating such self-enforcements.

I also remember a friend once saying, "I like to have my space to be able to lie." I thought that was a cop-out justification for lying because I felt that this particular person did not even make enough of an attempt to tell the truth. Small opinion of mine. Moving on. I knew that that sentence stood out to me because there was something deep embedded in it.

Back to economists creating these systems to self-enforce truth-telling. An enforcement is being designed by someone other than the self, still. And perhaps always. 

I'd like to patent my next realization today by self-quoting:

"As much as I love Truth, if I was ever forced to tell the Truth, I'd most certainly lie."

I guess there is something that runs through human veins deeper than Truth - Free Will. "Choice" is a super underrated word in my humble opinion. I think it is written in some book that the Truth will make you free - but I'd add my little tid bit: only if we are also free to lie.