The Worst Thing

For some people the worst thing in the world is death. For others, it is solitude. But for myself, I honestly believe that false hope is one of the worst things in the world. False hope, you ask, how can this rate amongst the worst things in the world. Simply put, false hope, induces someone to believe, someone to have faith, someone to strive for something that was never going to eventuate in the first place. False hope can arise in various situations,

1. It can arise when the object of a person's affection, plays on your feelings, and coerces you to believe that there is a possibility, however slight. In actual fact, there is no possibility - the act of coercing is nothing more than a means to reap the benefits of your infatuation.

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2. Alternatively, the situation may arise in similar circumstances, but with a different relationships. Say friends. For someone to lead you to believe that the existence of friendship is there, where in actual fact it consists of nothing more than the occasional greeting, is destructive. Where there is no possibility of friendship or no friendship at all - the inducing of someone to believe that there is, can be devastating for the victim. They put in all their efforts, in the hope that you may be friends, but in the end its all for nothing.

So why is it that this is such a bad thing? As said above it induces a person to dare to belief and to pursue something that is never going to happen.

There are those of you who will say that this is like going after a dream that is near impossible. It is not. In one case, a person is striving and putting all their effort into achieving a dream that was born out of their own mind. In the other, a person is induced into believing. And consequently, is chasing something on the grounds of misrepresentation. Where as it is something they would like, whether it be a gf, bf or friend, they are believing the possibility on false pretenses.

Then there are those of you that proclaim that this always happens and people need to htfu. Simply put, these are those people that provide the false hope. In essence they have no comprehension of the consequences that their actions cause people.

Then again, there are also those of you are of the opinion that is the person's own fault for believing. How is this situation any different than to those con artist whom pray on their good hearts of people, in times of hardships and in cases of misfortune? It is not. Whilst its not a investment of money that occurs, its the investment of something for valuable - emotion. It cannot be helped that these people, believe in humanity, and have a good, self - less heart. For someone to take advantage of this, is just as bad as taking advantage of the sick.

This can be likened to an action on the doctrine of Illegitimate Pressure under Equitable law. In such a case - a pressure which is illegitimate - induces or coerces the plaintiff to act in a certain way. How is illegitimate pressure similar? Well, a pressure that is illegitimate can manifest in a number of forms - whether it be by unlawful means or on the grounds of misrepresentation, as in this case. And the act that they are coerced into doing? Believing.

People will proclaim that there is a negligible opportunity for such an action like this to succeed, and therefore it is just. Whilst this is true - I do not deny that an action like this should succeed - this simply means that the result is Equitably just and practically just. Not for a single moment, does the reasonable person believe that this is morally just.

False Hope, a simple concept
Created by one and deposited on another.
For those that create it, maybe one night's lack of sleep due to guilt, will teach you of the pain and hurt that it will cause someone 100 sleepless nights.

-Pe3Jay