Moral dilemmas

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

This falls under social lies as being moral and kind - a concept nerds are mostly very terrible at grasping, and I only get because I'm old and still work hard at figuring out social skills normal people pick up at 15.

-Tell your friend you were lying, but do it in an insincere manner that will just make him/her confused, maybe. Lying that you hadn't read the book, as suggested above, would be good, too.

It is not immoral to tell white lies to keep things mellow, to make people happy, I swear, if the white lie isn't about anything important. (Answering "How are you?" with "Just fine", for example - it's usually not really a question, but a traditional way of saying "hello".) I REALLY hated that when I realized, but them's one of the mundane rules of getting along...

[kentonio]

Did some people actually think this was a genuine issue that I was struggling with?

[Aeson]

My post was in earnest...

[Proteus_MST]

Ok, say you jokingly told someone a character died at the end of a popular book series, which was completely untrue. Then that person freaked at because they thought you'd spoiled it. How could you admit you were only joking without actually spoiling the ending by confirming that the character doesn't actually die?

Discuss.

Actually in long term you will make this person happy ...
as soon as she gets to the end of the book and discovers that the character actually doesn't die

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Did some people actually think this was a genuine issue that I was struggling with?

I been burnt I must confess,

-Say, where do I make fake outrage ban-demand posts now that Ming's pretending he's going to clean up the Off-Topic Moderation thread? Ken called me "Grampa" the other day!

[DaShi]

To be fair, Harry Potter did die in the last book.

[Uncle Sparky]

My post was in earnest...

I am your biggest fan.