Parks, Raymond wrote at 01/17/2013 10:34 AM:
Yes, we lie frequently. Yes, it is lying - we are either stating a
falsehood or omitting the truth (the atheist example upthread).
Human beings are social animals - we constantly try to manipulate our
social situation for our personal optimum - it's built into us. Some
of us are better at it than others. Some (Aspergers?) are downright
incapable.
OK. Well, if we're all always lying, then it seems like "lying" is a
useless term. In order to make progress in the discussion, we'll have
to come up with a taxonomy of qualifiers. We've covered "white". It's
ubiquitous, and hence also useless. What other types of lying are
there? Specifically, which lies are indicators of legally relevant
internal states like shame versus which lies are merely facilitators of
the type of information control advocated by Eric and my lurker's use case?
--
glen
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