Is this right?

[eh7]

Below is a short story about positive attitude can get you anything you want. But it seems unethical to do so. Seems like lying. Can Christian practice this kind if "positive attitude" ? Isn't it deceiving other people? I am in a dilemma as if total honesty is necessary as in the example below. Otherwise I will always in the losing end..

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Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son: "I will choose my own bride!"

Father: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter."
Son: "Well, in that case...ok"


Next Day Father approaches Bill Gates.
Father: "I have a husband for your daughter."

Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!"
Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."

Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case...ok"

Finally Father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president. "

President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"

Father: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."

President: "Ah, in that case...ok"


This is how business is done!!


Moral: Even If you have nothing, You can get Anything.. But your attitude should be +ve...

 

[SwissMiss]

I dont think it's right because it's not just a positive attitude, it's lying.

 

[Sketcher]

That's pretty shady to me, and unrealistic, unless you've got a mob connection or something.

 

[NewCreature13]

I wish it would happened to me D;

 

[explodingboy]

YouTube - RSA Animate - Smile or Die

 

[Joshua Howard]

^^^ That video is really cool, Explodingboy. Actually, it is the most interesting presentation I have seen on youtube in quite a while.

Anyway, to answer the OP's question, the humorous story given is an example of promising what you don't have with the expectation that you will be able to innovate in a way that makes everything work out well anyway. The story is impossible, but the fundamentals are very real.

A simple real life example of that kind of thinking is writing a check when you have no money in the bank, because you expect that you'll be able to make a deposit before the person tries to cash the check. Another might be someone who bets their rent money gambling based on optimistic faith that they will win double returns.

A more complex real life example would be the naked short-selling which played a part in the market crash of 2008. People made bets which let them profit from a company's failure on the premise that they actually owned shares of the company and would pay up if they were wrong without actually having the shares.

Another example would be Enron, which propped its entire budget up on optimistic reports (assuming that it would be able to pull out of its rough times without anyone finding out that it was struggling) and fell apart practically overnight, leaving its employees and investors completely ripped off.

Honesty is the right way to do business, so I think that the overall answer to the questioned asked is, No, it isn't right.