Would you rather be hurt by the truth and happy with a lie?

I would prefer to know the truth. The truth might be very painful, but I still think it is better to know the truth. If I know the truth I can deal with the situation and I can decide what I am going to do to about it. If the truth is that I am going to die from an illness in the near future, I want to know exactly what my situation looks like. If I know that I am going to die soon I would have make some changes in my plans. I have long term goals and things that I want to do in the future, but if I knew that I was going to die soon and I would do the most important things right now instead of postponing them. If I didn't know the truth I wouldn't be able to make the adjustments that I would like to make and I wouldn't be able to prepare myself for the challenges ahead of me.

How important is truth in our lives? Vehemently support that expected from the truth of others, always the truth, a lie clearly labeled as an act of betrayal and penalized accordingly but ... we really like truth, in many cases, preferred lies 'beautiful'? It's easier to say what we want to hear than a truth that might hurt? Why our interlocutors believe sometimes that we are not strong enough to speak to us openly and honestly? Us trying to protect us or themselves? If we want lies beautifully embellished, why do we miss? Why do we rebel against them, aclamand need for sincerity? I thought I prefer truth, above all. But now I wonder if it was not just calved. One way to convince me, or trying to do, I'm a man with a clear moral, unabated. It's easy to say "sincerity" or "hate lie" ... but it really? Our beliefs are so extreme? Honesty, even may be "absolute" or has its limit? Lies, are all to blame? Today do not know what I prefer. No right to know what I prefer. How to really expect from others only when I is a lie? Small lies, big lies, guilty or innocent, all lies are called. We hide behind explanations, explanations meant to somehow reconcile our conscience ... just to say that lie does not hurt others ... is it so? Or, just stay away new consequences of our lies? I would say I prefer the truth. Above all. But I think today I'm indifferent.

I'd better off telling the truth although it may hurt me. Hiding something often makes us restless. Take the consequence and face it. Not many people will do this. They have their own right to hide it, anyway.

The truth might hurt and it might be one of the most painful things to deal with, but when the truth is told, any ramifications from it, whatever it will be, will be over before you know it. A lie on the other hand, a lie can really go on for sometime. It can drag people into it, it can get out of control, it can eat away at people, consuming every moment of their life for year and year, until the truth finally will come out anyway. And when the truth comes out after a lie, there is just something about it that just makes it seem rather worse. Far worse if the truth had been actually told in the first place. Very little good if anything at all, ever comes from lying. To lie just means to do yourself a disservice and really will cause you all kinds of issues in the end. The truth can and will hurt, but when you think about the long term consequences of a lie being found out, it never will end well.

I think I'd rather find out the truth and be hurt rather than be happy with a lie. I believe that a lie cannot be hidden for too long, the truth will come out in the open at one point or another in one's life. Finding out that someone lied to you about something will be more hurtful when you find about it. Keeping a lie can cause more misunderstandings and confusions between people so it is always best to say the truth in my opinion...

well, for my own opinion I rather get hurt knowing the truth, than to live a life that is full of lies. Even you keep it a secret, time will come, the truth will always comes out. So its better to know it while its still hot, because if you tried to keep something, sometimes things become more complicated, and the simple lies will result to a big problem.

It depends. If the bad news is about my health, like i have cancer or something terrible, I really do not want to know about it. So that I can lead a normal life and do want I want to do. If there are other problems, such as bankrupt or deserted by other people. i think i want to know the truth. Though the truth is hard, but at least i can make out a decision earlier to make my life a little better.

I would rather not be put in a situation where I have to choose between the two. But we all know that life is always about making choices. Being happy with a lie is a temporary thing. Eventually guilt or morose would set in. Knowing the truth stings a lot but the sting is also temporary. So just for the sake of argument, I'd rather temporarily live happily under the ambit of a lie if it means experiencing a sense of utopia. Sort of like Bruce Willis' movie "Surrogates."

Others will say telling the truth is the best way..it is of course but sometimes you just have to weight the situation specially if you could really handle seeing somebody that you love be heart broken because of something she found out.. I do believe though that sometimes there are things not to really say... but again it really depends on the situation..

for me its better to know the truth even it hurts than living with a lies coz the much much too painful to accept. I know how the feelings coz all my life i was living with all lies.

Yes it does depend on the situation, but personally for me, I rather hear the truth then being lie to, even it is to protect me. I don't want to be lied to and to find out the truth later on, especially from someone else. That would hurt more then being told the truth.

I think it depends on the situation although I prefer someone telling me the truth o matter how hurt it will be. Truth sucks sometimes, but it won't hurt too much than being lied to. Most of us can't accept the truth, but somehow lying is so damaging. Not that I never tell a lie at all or something, heheheh...but I prefer to hear the truth. :D

The truth set us free. I'm happy to tell the truth even though its hurting but hiding lies is very painful. Also your cursing yourself to tell different side story just to make a cover for the things you do. My conscious is killing me when I'm not telling the truth its corresponding consequences and really scary, the worst case scenario they don't believe you anymore.

Hi there, first of all Honestly is the best Policy, being honest for me is important for me.. so whether it could be hurt or not, i choose to be being honest.. i know that theres no perfect out in this world, so i must be accept what is the real thing, at least its true and not a lie.. if the other person happy with the lie well i'm not and people being like that its not a normal.. or maybe their are the lier too,, things like that right?

The truth usually comes out eventually, so i rather be hurt by the truth sooner or later.

i would choose to know the truth and be hurt than to be lied about and know it later. it will just cause me so much pain knowing that i am lied about something, especially when it comes from a person i dearly love. sometimes we think about protecting something or someone but the truth you can correct a mistake by another mistake. and doing such will cause the situation worst.

Of course, I had rather be hurt by the truth than be happy with a lie. And I will try to keep the truthful persons by my side as friends and keep myself away from liars.

Well, it depends. I'd rather be hurt by the truth if it would help me and I'd rather be happy with a lie if all it does is hurt me when you tell the 'truth'. It depends on so many things, lol. Like what they mean by 'truth'. Because truth doesn't equal their opinion, if you know what I mean. But yeah, I'd rather be hurt by the truth because if they told me a lie, it could lead to bad paths in my life, and maybe ruin it forever.