That’s already a problem if you assume that Daredevil can tell someone’s lying because of their heart rate. But it’s often just a result of stress or them being neuro-divergent in some way. The whole concept of being able to tell that someone is lying from how they’re acting is very problematic, and it leads to people who are innocent being assumed to be guilty because they act in a way that we associate with lying. Oren: And it goes beyond the polygraph detection. Wes: That’s like me at the doctor every single time.Ĭhris: I personally just like the idea that Daredevil or Toph have somebody that they think is like always lying to them and that turns out that person just has a crush on them. But it also could go up because they’re nervous because you just asked them a hard question. And because it turns out that, yeah, someone’s heartbeat might go up when they lie. You need to be careful with these because the whole concept that you can tell that someone’s lying because their heart rate changes is actually pretty dangerous because it turns out that we have machines in real life that do that, and they’re called polygraph machines, and they are very unreliable. And the first thing I want to talk about is the detection methods. Because these are all different ways of getting at the same thing. And it covers things like the Aes Sedai from Wheel of Time, who have a magical oath that stops them from lying. Covers things like Toph and Daredevil, who can supposedly tell that you’re lying by listening to your heartbeat. Then this covers magic, like the actuals Zone of Truth spell for D&D, which stops people from lying. And once you change that, that really changes the way we interact with each other. Oren: Because it turns out, being able to lie to people is a pretty fundamental part of the human experience. A lot of stories have it, and it almost always has way weirder implications than they think it does.Ĭhris: And wider and more subtle, at every level. Oren: It’s a very common staple of fiction. Because this episode we’re talking about anti-lying magic and how it’s way more messed up than you think. Everything has to be truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Oren: I was going to mislead you about what the topic of today’s episode is, but I can’t because I’m in a Zone of Truth. Oren: And welcome everyone to another episode of the Mythcreants podcast. Volunteer to transcribe a podcast.Ĭhris: You’re listening to the Mythcreants podcast with your hosts Oren Ashkenazi, Wes Matlock, and Chris Winkle.
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