Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.-Orson Scott Card- Ender's Game This quote, from one of the greatest authors ever, comes from an interesting context. Little Ender on the operating table to lose his monitor, a device that monitored everything that happened to him over the previous years, reacts to something the doctor said. The doctor had said that the operation would not hurt a bit. Andrew (his real name) took this as an accurate prediction of the future, as adults think that children cannot endure much pain, and therefore assured him that a very painful procedure would not hurt. In this case, the lie was more dependable than the truth. This also was shown later when Ender was told a lie about who he was playing against in order to defeat an entire alien race. But that's a whole other story. I suppose the ironic thing is, during the operation, Ender almost died, so perhaps the human race would not have been saved after all. Isn't it interesting how precarious tend to be when seen in hindsight?
~another musing of the ill-informed~
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