Truth or Happiness?

[packbat]

Okay, I can't sleep for wondering how people would answer this, so...

Which do you value more: truth or happiness?

Answer any way you please (though I reserve the right to delete anything obscene).

Comments

[nanakikun.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can value one over the other ^_^
for, as I've seen, happiness without truth is a rather hollow and false beast;
while truth without happiness has little in the way of a point, making it roundish as well o_O`

Soo, I would say that if I were picking one of two things to value, I'd put my cash on the existence of value. That way, if I have neither Truth nor Happiness, I can at least evaluate my state function ^^;

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can value one over the other ^_^
for, as I've seen, happiness without truth is a rather hollow and false beast;
while truth without happiness has little in the way of a point, making it roundish as well o_O`

Ah, so you hold no ideological preference. Just out of curiosity: any practical preference? That is to say, do you tend to seek one to the sacrifice of the other?

[nanakikun.livejournal.com]

I do not know; it depends on the situation ^_^
For example, if I had created a complicated web of lies and half-truths to support some kind of fiction that caused happiness, I'd be loath to knock it down for sake of the work and striving it took to create such a complex thing. ^_^
But, on the other hand, if someone asked me a direct question about one thing or another, I'd be loath to break my code of honor and keep up a mass of misleading insuations by adding outright falsitudes.

So practically, I'll lie a little in skipping over facts here and there of a personal nature, allowing you to insert your own lies to fill in the gaps, but I'd like to think I wouldn't deny something that was so ^_^ [Isn't there some Biblical passage that needs to be cited on here o_O?]

Example: There's some kind of alarm going on in the Chemistry building, and I'm confident that the proper way out is through the main lecture hall fire exit. I wouldn't necessarily say "Hello, I am not anyone of any import, but I recommend that you proceed in an orderly fashion through this exit," because I would likely instead take up the coloured cape of a false authority to ensure a swift and safe exodus from the hazardous zone '_'.