# For one year, no one on Earth can tell a lie. Results? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285 "2011-09-05T16:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/81 "2011-09-10T16:24:45Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I hadn’t thought about the time issue, but I’d guess that, since the VVV nanites force the [del]victim[/del] deponent to tell the truth, the deponent is going to feel a strong and rising compulsion to do so until he is able to respond. Then I can lock people into a mode in which their only desire is to respond to me? Excellent, I can take over the world easily this way. I shall ask a question through a popular medium, then make it so onerous and difficult for people to answer me that it will essentially take up all their time and leave me free to take over the world! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/82 "2011-09-11T18:48:30Z")
I’m not even sure the cockroaches would survive. Anyone who thinks things would be less bad has what I beleive is an unreasoned, overly optimistic or naive veiw of human nature. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/83 "2011-09-11T23:15:45Z")
Fox news would go out of business, Rush and Beck would disappear as would the Republican party. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/84 "2011-09-12T17:11:23Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Fox news would go out of business, Rush and Beck would disappear as would the Republican party. They might not. There was a hole in the OP I didn’t notice as first. The VVV doesn’t prevent **volunteering** a lie; **it only prevents lying in response to a question.** ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/85 "2011-09-12T18:59:31Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Fox news would go out of business, Rush and Beck would disappear as would the Republican party. Only if they don’t believe the things they say to be true. While I agree that Rush and Beck would go, overall I fear that stupidity is the ultimate defense against the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Agent\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/86 "2011-09-12T19:04:57Z")
wasn’t this a movie? the invention of lying i believe it is called. not exactly the same though now that i think about it…these people didn’t know what lying was and we’re talking about taking a corrupt world and suddenly removing the ability to lie. had we all been born without the ability to lie, the world would be drastically different. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/87 "2011-09-12T21:31:46Z")
The personal violence will escalate to unprecedented levels, until the only folks who remain are ultra-muscular rage-a-holics that will get the first blow in, & leave no survivors. Steroid abusers will rule the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/88 "2011-09-12T21:34:12Z")
The option you missed is: Dead silence. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/89 "2011-09-12T21:37:52Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > The personal violence will escalate to unprecedented levels, until the only folks who remain are ultra-muscular rage-a-holics that will get the first blow in, & leave no survivors. > > Steroid abusers will rule the Earth. Honey, honey, no. Except in comic books, guns beat bare hands 99 times out of a hundred, no matter what steroid abuse or ninja training the non-gun-user has. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/90 "2011-09-13T10:56:40Z")
> [@pendgwen](#): > > I predict I’ll be doing a fewer bullshit chest pain work-ups as people who actually just want a sandwich and a place to sleep for the night are forced to say so. My mother’s doctors would be quite surprised at some of the changes in her responses, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285/91 "2011-09-16T21:58:54Z")
The whole notion of HIPAA and patient privacy goes right out the window. Hey doc! I just saw Skald leaving. What was he in for? He’s got the worst case of hemorrhoids I’ve ever seen. Eww! What caused that? Apparently the source of flying monkeys is rather… umm… distressing. No wonder they’ve got such bad attitudes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-one-year-no-one-on-earth-can-tell-a-lie-results/595285.md?page=4)