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Topic History of: Lies Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
JK2006 |
No I think the problem is that most people now think lies include the reason for making them (as some definitions say). But essentially a lie is an untruth (a "falsehood") and why it was made is another question. Another example of how words, like laws, have become blurred. I mean, these days many people have never even met their "friends". |
honey!oh sugar sugar. |
So do you think lies have become so common that most people cant tell the difference now?
Or that they dont care if its the truth or not? |
JK2006 |
I had an interesting conversation over a Dim Sum meal yesterday with a couple who have been friends for years (both, sadly, Oxford University graduates). It's my view on LIES. A lie is "something that is not true". I had a hard time convincing my friends that this does not concern or involve motive, interpretation or reason for telling a lie or printing a lie or broadcasting a lie. That is another question. Was it a mistake or misunderstanding or bad information or malicious - those questions are a totally different area. Eventually my friends were convinced but I found it disturbing that something so obvious (to me) would need explaining and justification to intelligent people.
If something is not true, it is a lie. WHY it was said or written or assumed is neither here nor there. |
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