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What if, for a week, everyone on earth could not lie and were required to answer...

A Week of Universal Truthfulness

Truth’s Disruption of Personal Bonds

Privacy and Autonomy Would Collapse

Politics and Governance — The Week of Mandatory Truth

How a Universal Truth-Telling Week Would Upend Security and Law Enforcement

Economy and markets — truth until awkward

Medicine and Science — Truth’s Immediate Effects

When Truth Removes Gentle Deception — Social Order and Moral Trade‑Offs

Legal System — Perjury Impossible, But Forced Testimony Raises Rights Issues

Why Truth Mandates Would Hit Harmony-Oriented Cultures Harder

A Week of Unavoidable Truth — Intense Upheaval, Not Inevitable Collapse

The Dual Aftereffects of Universal Truth-Telling

Behavioral adaptation to universal truth-telling

Truth Compelled: Tensions among Truth, Autonomy, Privacy, and Harm

When Ubiquitous Truth Becomes Harm

Kant on the Duty of Truth in the Groundwork

Mill on Liberty — Harm Principle and Free Speech

Sissela Bok — Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life — Truth, Lies, and ...