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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (15928)	9/10/2001 12:01:30 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Well, I did tell my wife those pants didn't make her butt look big....<VBG>

To: The Philosopher who wrote (15928)	9/10/2001 8:00:53 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 59480

My mother taught me that "a lie is a deliberate deception." Under that definition, do you still want to make your claim? I tend to view a lie as knowingly making a false statement with the intention to deceive someone. If you don't knowingly make a false statement I'm not sure I would call it a lie even if your intentions were to deceive. I would not call letting someone deceive themselves a lie. If I told someone "I have no interest in X" and I figured that they would think I was trying to cover up my real interest so why they paid intention to X I could make a move for Y, I would not call that a lie. I also would not call the use of camouflage a lie even though it is an attempt to deceive someone in to thinking you are not were you really are. By that standard I almost never lie. Tim