A closer analogy is “You are an interesting person, and I will introduce the first interesting person who comes to the party to Alice”. You come to the party, you’re told that you’re the first there, but you’re not introduced to Alice because you’re not an interesting person after all. Instead they introduce the first interesting person to Alice (who for some reason only has time to meet one person).
Ah never mind, I now see what you meant. Yes in general you can narrowly honour your commitment by carrying out the action, but I mean more by “honouring your word” than just that. As I see it, someone who deliberately lies has not honoured their word, regardless of any subsequent actions that they might perform.
They’ve made two statements, one vouching that something is true, and one vouching that something will be true. Ensuring that the latter will be true does nothing to restore their loss of honour from the deliberate falsity of the former. In this case they can’t even honour the latter part, since they made a mutually exclusive promise to two different people.
A closer analogy is “You are an interesting person, and I will introduce the first interesting person who comes to the party to Alice”. You come to the party, you’re told that you’re the first there, but you’re not introduced to Alice because you’re not an interesting person after all. Instead they introduce the first interesting person to Alice (who for some reason only has time to meet one person).Ah never mind, I now see what you meant. Yes in general you can narrowly honour your commitment by carrying out the action, but I mean more by “honouring your word” than just that. As I see it, someone who deliberately lies has not honoured their word, regardless of any subsequent actions that they might perform.
They’ve made two statements, one vouching that something is true, and one vouching that something will be true. Ensuring that the latter will be true does nothing to restore their loss of honour from the deliberate falsity of the former. In this case they can’t even honour the latter part, since they made a mutually exclusive promise to two different people.