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Centigonal · 2025-05-15T02:42:32 1747276952

Life has a lot of iterated games. A reputation for dishonesty can sometimes end up following you around.

nkrisc · 2025-05-15T09:07:13 1747300033

That just means a given individual might get found out, opening up an opportunity for a different dishonest person.

mulmen · 2025-05-14T20:23:52 1747254232

Ok but people are both honest and dishonest so how do you decide what type a person is?

immibis · 2025-05-14T22:52:07 1747263127

If a person chooses to be dishonest when that benefits them, they're a dishonest person.

mulmen · 2025-05-15T04:10:46 1747282246

Nobody is perfectly honest so this definition isn’t useful without further qualification.

tonyhart7 · 2025-05-15T00:53:22 1747270402

because dishonest people can choose to be honest

honest when it benefit you is not truly honest

mulmen · 2025-05-15T04:10:09 1747282209

> because dishonest people can choose to be honest

According to you. But why can’t the opposite be true?

> honest when it benefit you is not truly honest

Show me a person who has never been dishonest.

tonyhart7 · 2025-05-15T05:29:28 1747286968

"According to you. But why can’t the opposite be true?"

because they are honest people

"Show me a person who has never been dishonest."

My mother always honest with me