Is it OK to lie to someone if you know that the lie will become a truth by the time the person figures out?

Question

the result is that the person that has been lied to never figures out that he was lied to; the context of this lie is not necessarily in a legal environment, i just want to know if its ethical

Answer 1

No !

  

A lie is a lie.  You may fool the  person you are lying to but you'll never be able to fool yourself or your conscience.

Answer 2

If the information that was given, was meant to steer the individual in a direction based on false information in the first place, is as useful as me telling you the following:

Eat from this tree...you will not surely die, you will become like god, knowing good and evil...

Is it ok?  for such a thing happened to Eve and then Adam...and we all paid the price ever since haven't we?

Answer 3

to heck with ethics..a good lie is better then a bad truth

just ask Barack Obama..if he told the truth..the sky would fall in on him

Answer 4

NO!

Answer 5

No. The reason is because it deals with the present, not the future. An example would be that I told my friend I had a cell phone when I didn't even though in the future I could very well have one. The point is that I lied to my friend at that moment regardless if I got one in the future.