Why Can't We Lie Sometimes?

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@PretzleMe wrote:

There are times where I'd like the option to be "dishonorable" and you know something?  I'd be okay if it had an adverse affect on my relationships with certain people (or improved it in some cases).

For instance, when you rescue the Moshae and you need the Cardinal to open the pods in order to save as many people as possible.  The Cardinal won't do this unless you agree to spare the base.  My Ryder definitely would have agreed to those terms, allowing the Cardinal to open up all those pods, and then blew the base up anyway.

Dishonorable?  Maybe.  Don't care.  And if you do, fine and I understand, but I'd like the option.

So there are times where I'd like the option to go back on my word.

What are your thoughts on this?

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As to your original question on lying, I think it would be great if there were more conversation options to be able to do this at times, the ability to be a bit deceptive or coerce your way, through conversation to achieve a certain goal.  But as with all choices, there should be consequences, either immediate or long range.  It brings to mind some of the quests from Witcher 3, especially the Bloody Baron quest, where you make choices, that even though you feel it is the right or humanitarian choice, people end up dying.  I would like to see more of these situations develop as the MEA universe continues.  While playing last night, doing Liam's loyalty quest, I had the option to lie (it was in parenthesis in one of the conversation options), which I took, but I don't know that the out come of the quest was  altered in anyway by taking that choice.

As far as the Moshae quest goes, I saved the captives because my friend Jaal wanted me to save them, and that the Angara place a great value on family.  I also shot the Cardinal in the head when the opportunity arose (which was very satisfying), so I feel that I lied or deceived him to get what I wanted.  This is a choice, a quest, that should have long range implications.  Did I save a few hundred Angara, only to see more loose their lives later because I failed to destroy the facility?  Did someone from that group that I saved go on to become a great leader or scientist that eventually helped the war effort?  I don't know what the consequences of my choice will be, but there should be something.