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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10508)	10/16/2009 6:27:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If the originator of the idea believes its true, and the initial spreader of it, and the the current speaker who heard it from the spreader all believe it was true, then I wouldn't call it a lie. If the spreader knew it to be false, but the originator and the speaker think its true, I probably would not call it a lie although technically it could be. If one person in a long chain thinks its not true, but everyone else thinks its is, then it stretches things even more. I'd tend to focus on the originator and the current speaker, and maybe the first popular spreader if no one knew of the comment before he spread it. 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.