stealthyeliminator
Regular Member
I was thinking about this earlier and when I looked it up, I was surprised to see that self-fulfilling prophecy is practically defined as such. The original claim is a untrue, but making the claim causes what is claimed to become true at some point in the future.
Since it is initially a lie, I cannot condone the telling of self-fulfilling prophecies.
I began thinking about it when I saw something which reminded me of pretentious advertisements which make claims about a business's integration or influence in a community. Like "X community's #1 Y business." If the advertisement is successful people may believe that the company is indeed ranked #1 by some legitimate ranking system, and such might influence their business selection, and thus lead to that company actually holding a market share which effectually puts them at that claimed ranking. The initial claim, however, may have well still been a lie.
Since it is initially a lie, I cannot condone the telling of self-fulfilling prophecies.
I began thinking about it when I saw something which reminded me of pretentious advertisements which make claims about a business's integration or influence in a community. Like "X community's #1 Y business." If the advertisement is successful people may believe that the company is indeed ranked #1 by some legitimate ranking system, and such might influence their business selection, and thus lead to that company actually holding a market share which effectually puts them at that claimed ranking. The initial claim, however, may have well still been a lie.
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