jlallen Re: >>"Ooops!!! Apologies are in order to President Bush from al those who have called him a liar....."<<
I apologize for answering one of your series of silly one-liner, neener-neener posts, but this was too tempting.
LESSON: "What is a lie." (For the seriously, ethically challenged ONLY.....those with sound character and values may proceed directly to the substance of the debate.)
One may lie by representing an alleged fact as true when he knows it is untrue. One may also lie by representing that an alleged fact is true when he knows that he does not have sufficient information to know whether it is true or false. One may also lie by presenting information in a way that would lead a reasonable listener to conclude that he knew or believed it to be true when, in fact, he knew that it was untrue or knew that he had insufficient information to believe it to be true.
Example #1
A car dealer knows that the used vehicle burn oil. If he tells the prospective buyer that it doesn't burn oil, he is lying.
Example # 2
A car dealer has no knowledge of whether or not the used vehicle burns oil but nonetheless represents to the prospective buyer that the car has been checked out and "it doesn't burn oil." He is making a dishonest representation whether or not the car burns oil.
Example # 3
The dealer represents that the prior owner has assured him that "the car doesn't burn oil." The dealer has purchased several cars from the same prior owner, gotten the same assurances on burning oil, and found that in most instances they were lies. He, nonetheless, assures the prospective buyer that the previous owner told him that the car doesn't burn oil as if he believes it AND WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER WILL LIKELY RELY UPON THAT REPRESENTATION. Just as in examples # 1 and 2 he is promoting the "truth" of a statement that he knows is untrue, or that he knows he has insufficient facts upon which to attest to its truth.
In the, "pinhead," ... "anti-American" .... "communist," ... "hate America," .... "liberal left" world, or, in other words, in the world of those that disagree with any of the radical, neo-con views and actually express our thoughts in concepts instead of slogans, we call that common sense. |
