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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (10509)10/16/2009 6:41:40 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
If there is any slight doubt about it being false, or if its somewhat subject to interpretation, then I'd even be more reluctant to call it a lie, even if I knew one person in the chain spread it believing it was false.

I agree. I always afford the benefit of the doubt when using the L word. Which is why I offered an example that was conspicuously false and for which no reasonable case for truth could be made and where the benefit of lying is obvious. I won't use the L word when there is reasonable doubt. Like you, I avoid attributing motivations unless it's a slam dunk.
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