OK, I really don’t get this. There’s a new reality show on Fox called “The Moment of Truth”, where basically, contestants are hooked up to a lie detector in front of their friends and family, and are asked embarrassing/personal questions. If they tell the truth, they get paid. If they lie, they don’t get paid.
Let’s go back to Logic 101, shall we? Say you’re asked, “Do you love your girlfriend?” and you don’t. You say (truthfully) “No.” She gets mad, you get paid. Conversely, if you say (untruthfully) “Yes”, the machine beeps, she sees that your “yes” answer was a lie, she still gets mad, and you don’t get paid. So why would you lie? If you sign up for the show, you’re screwing yourself (unless you’re an absolute saint) so why not get paid? I absolutely don’t understand the logic of this. shouldn’t everyone win? or do they pick people too dumb to see that there’s no difference between telling the truth, and lying to a machine that says you’re lying?
And not for nothing, but this show was adopted from a South American version that was cancelled when a woman admitted on air to hiring a hit man to kill her husband.
