"You must never tell me a lie.”
"That's not possible."
"Why not? Are going to lie to me? How do I trust you then?"
"I may or may not lie to you. You may trust me because there is no reason not to and because it doesn't matter whether I tell you the truth or not in any case... "
"Yes but isn't it all about trust & commitment?"
"Is it? I thought it was about understanding the truth and lies and commitments and betrayals of each other?
Isn't it about ability to live and plan without any reason to believe that life has ever yielded anything but naught to anyone?"
"But there is whole life between the naught and the naught...”
"Yes. And there so much of truth between the lies, and betrayal matters only when one has had enough evidence of commitment...”
"All this is sophistry. You know very well that one mustn't lie...”
"Do believe in a universal truth that has not been completely true even once? Not even fables?"
"You believe then that one should lie to people?"
"No. but people should not expect anyone not to...”
"But if you can't trust anyone to speak the truth, life will stop functioning... you will not believe when your cab wallah says he will take you wherever you want to, and He will not trust your money.
This complex web of life functions because people trust each other...”
"Precisely...”
"In order to function, one must trust others. It’s not a choice, its necessity.
In order to live in a way normally considered sane, one must believe in today and tomorrow.
In order to make the grand spectacles of human achievements, it is important to believe in legacy."
"Is it all a facade then? Nothing is worth anything? Morals, values, legacy, goodness, nothing?"
"It is important I believe... Hope is important, it's vital, values and morals and belief and trust are vital for life to function...
The catch is it's not our choice... life is not our choice, neither is death, neither are yin and yang, good and bad, truth and lie, trust and distrust... They are vital for the web of life. Life as we know it exists between interplay of so many of these poles...they structure our universe...."
"You speak too much... and not a lot of it is connected with what is happening in real life....Life is not about thinking it, but living it...”
"Right... That's why I must not lie, and I must..."
I give up on you. You seem to be incapable of living life, any sense of humor"
"But I am alive...”
"And you believe that it doesn't matter. Maybe that's why truth doesn't matter to you"
"But I just said it matters to me"
Why can't you simply promise to speak it then?"
"But I mustn't lie to you, by promising what I might not deliver"
“You just argued that you might lie if you must, why mustn't you then?"
"Hmm... maybe a bit of coffee and fresh air might help in clearing this matter...?”
"Yeah maybe...”
"You know I was really thinking about how people don't believe in truth anymore"
Yes they don't them prefer procrastinating and chewing on it between coffee breaks...”
