Why Would Someone Break Their Promises

Why do we break our promises?

I wish i knewIn all honesty i really wished i could answer the question with a lot of confidence and give you the right answer but unfortunately i dont know. But i can theorize or well in other words “guess”People can be forced into making promises, due to their circumstances they can find themselves in a very desperate and difficult situation which in essence pushes them to break the promiseOr it could simply be that the person didn't take it seriously. In our modern day society, where social media is removing all emotional intent from socializing, it is possible for fake promises to be made. On Social media we say a lot of things but we don't necessarily mean anything by it, you can tell someone you like them even though you don't, with that being said i believe people can just make promises but not really understand what a promise isTherefore they can brake these promises cause they never meant it, they just said it. And because we dont attach any emotional value to the promise it becomes pointless to us. I myself am guilty of breaking a promise, I'm sure I'm not the only one. I was talking to this girl on hangouts, I haven't known her for particularly long now but she seems nice and cares for me. She confessed she had leavings and being the gullable 17 year old boy i am, i said i felt the same and she asked me to promise to her that i meant whay i said. I blindly said yes but i have completely forgotten what a promise is. True be told I'm actually in love with another girl, and i left this new girl.So i left this girl and lied to her about the way I felt, this breaking my promise and at the time i thought it isn't so bad cause I didn't mean it. But after that i took some to reflect, and j realized that a promise is a bond, an agreement of trust , and she was actually the only who trusted me and i broke her trust just because i said something i didn't meanThat's the only reason i can think of as to why people would break a promise

If someone breaks a solemn promise or oath, does that make them a liar or can their action be justified?

If someone breaks a solemn promise or oath, then in a narrow sense they have not kept to their word and, if they knew they would not keep their word at the time they made the oath or promise, then they were lying. However, if it was their honest intention to keep their word and circumstances beyond their control led to them breaking it, then not only were they not lying then, but they can hardly be considered dishonest later.In your question you suggest only two possibilities: he/she is a liar or their action is justified. These two are not mutually exclusive. One may lie for morally acceptable reasons. For example: a stranger wielding a knife comes up to you in the street and screams, “Where is the bitch? I’ll cut her throat!” If you knew where the woman/girl was hiding, it would be truthful to reveal her location but unethical. Ethically superior would be lying and saying, “No idea, mate.”Therefore, to answer your question fully you’d need to know:-The circumstances of the oathThe knowledge, understanding and intentions of the oath-takerThe circumstances under which it was brokenThe knowledge, understanding and intentions of the oath-breakerThe result of the oath-breaking.Life ain’t straight-forward!

Why do people always break their promise?

Let us imagine a scene:Abhi and Anu had been crushing on each other for a while, Abhi plans a date to express his love for Anu, Anu wears a pretty yellow dress and looks her best, Abhi tells her that it was a bad year for him emotionally and Anu was the best thing that happened to him, it starts raining and then they kiss and then Abhi wanted this beautiful moment to last till his last breath and the promises of forever flow as an Ed sheeran song plays in the back ground. NOW, let’s get back to reality, every one of us has been in a situation like this, may be not a date, may be on phone, but there is one thing that is similar, that everything at that particular point where people promise of forever, the moment is beautiful and they want it always and don’t realize that life is a very huge deal , that Anu will not always wear a pretty dress and she will be a mess in her pajamas and it will not always rain or and life is not like an Ed sheeran song and when they finally realize this, they forget their promises. Promises are important, sometimes we are happy and relieved by the assurance but we find ourselves in a state of despair when they forget about it. So let us make sure that we are careful with our promises and ask others if they are sure about their’s.

When a person breaks a promise, does that mean he lied? If so, then when is it a lie?

If someone breaks a promise, most of the time, it’s not really a lie. I suppose you could consider it an unintentional lie, not spoken out of malice but rather what someone truly believes possible at that moment in time. Unfortunately, a lot of people are far too optimistic about their ability to execute a promise. Also, a lot of promises are highly unrealistic.Look at your standard wedding vows, in which two people promise to always feel the same way about each other for the rest of their natural lives as they do at that moment. You wouldn’t promise to stay with the same employer or live in the same residence all of your life. So how realistic is promising the unreasonable—?There’s an old adage: Don’t make promises that you can’t keep. What I read into this is to make as few promises as possible. Also, make damned sure you can carry through if you do make a promise.However, a promise is a lie when someone makes you one and has no intention of carrying it out from the get-go. I think that most of us would find it impossible to see inside the hearts and minds of promise breakers and determine if we were lied to, barring stumbling across a hidden journal or confidential email.