I recently saw a movie called the Invention of Lying. In this alternate reality, you have a world where everyone is completely honest and no one lies, until one man gains the ability to lie. He uses this gift to become rich and famous. But there was a moment where he was at his mother’s death bed that changed everything. She was scared of having no afterlife and he told her a story of what would happen to her after she dies: everyone would receive a mansion, you would have all the food you could eat, etc. The doctors here this and they believe it too because there is no such thing as a lie.

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