I am taking a poll.

[skulkingpancake]

The question:

Are broken promises the same as lies?

Possible answers:

Yes.
No.
Purple monkey socks.

(No maybe's...get off the fence.)

Let me know your opinion! (and let's be serious here, people)

Man I feel like mold

Comments

[skulkingpancake]

No. *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!*

In all seriousness...I mean, like, say person A promises that...they won't punch person B in the face (I swear, I swear, this is hypothetical). And then the next day they punch person B in the face.

So when they promised that they wouldn't, they were lying, weren't they?

[skulkingpancake]

addition to that last one...

I'll give both (or three, really) choices, actually.

1st choice, when person A promised person B they wouldn't punch them in the face, they fully intended to keep that promise, but then they didn't.

2nd choice, person A really had no intention of keeping the promise.

3rd choice, person A probably intended to keep the promise, but didn't really care either way.

[electricfire121]

in response to person A person B

[lostwanderer89]

I think that the moment you say the words "I promise," you are setting yourself up for a lie. Things change, people change, ideals change. To bind yourself to one course of action is stupid.

And broken promises, a nice way to say a lie. At least in most cases.
But maybe I'm just bitter.

[embracesthedork]

To a certain extent.

When someone purposelly breaks a promise or lies while making a promise than obviously yes, but if it's a promise that you just can't help ( "I promise I'll love you forever...") noone can control that. But If my mom said I promise you can go to warped tour next year as long as you have a 3.25 gpa and then I get the grades and she says no, that is a lie.

I really agree with Mindy a lot.

[skulkingpancake]

yeah it's not like one of those "I promise I'll love you forever" promises, I wouldn't have believed that anyway, it's just a little simpler than that...but yeah.

[icantmakeyou]

Yup, I agree. If the person had no intention of keeping the promise, it's a lie. Promises shouldn't be made lightly. It's hard to answer this, since so much of it depends on the situation.