Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”

Re:Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience” by icebraining on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:33PM (#16234882)

"(...) None of us could live with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to. An habitual truth-teller is simply an impossible creature; he does not exist; he never has existed. Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so—and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. (...)"

Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html)

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Re:Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience” by whatyoucantsay on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:44PM (#16234974)

I prefer Kant.

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Re:Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience” by icebraining on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:51PM (#16235877)

Doesn't Kant go against your example of Anne Frank? ("To be truthful (honest) in all declarations is therefore a sacred command of reason prescribing unconditionally, one not to be restricted by any conveniences"). Surely a teenager telling white lies to pushy peers is preferable.

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Re:Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience” by whatyoucantsay on Friday January 26, 2018 @01:54AM (#16237471)

Yes, Kant does. I'm not an absolute Kantian by any means, but I do prefer Kant to Twain. This isn't to say I dislike Twain, though.

> Surely a teenager telling white lies to pushy peers is preferable.

That's not sure by any means. In fact, the habit of telling "white lies" is almost certainly harmful in the long run. The same is true for caving to pushy peers.

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