If only it were possible to pull this off, I'd get rich! I've got the best idea for a fabulous invention: An honesty detector!
How great would it be to be able to build an honesty detector that would go Beep! Beep! Beep! whenever dishonesty was detected.
It would have to have a sensitivity setting, or it would be forever going off because some nearby kid fibbed to his parents about his grade on his last English paper; or some man fudged – just a bit – the amount he told his wife he’d spent on that new power tool; or someone who cheated on a math test 25 years ago got too close.
If it could be calibrated just right, it would be handy in a number of locations.
For example, shop keepers could install one in the door of their stores which would beep every time someone tried to shoplift. That would put an end to that!
Or people with cheating spouses could install one in the bedroom which would go off in the event of a new cheating episode. It would have to have the ability to be re-set often.
People hiring a new employee could have one sitting on the table in the interview room. If a candidate for a position took a seat and the device immediately started beeping, the person would simply be shown the door.
I guess it would have to have a character detection setting for that.
How handy would such a device be in a political debate? Or in a police interrogation room? Or in the principal’s office at school? Or in the security line at the airport?
Unfortunately, such a thing isn’t currently possible. But if I ever come up with a way to bottle good character judgment, you’ll be seeing my honesty detectors on the shelves of your local stores.
And you’ll be seeing me on the beach in Cozumel! Honest.
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