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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sdgla who wrote (973670)	10/19/2016 5:57:28 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575624

The simple truth about the term ‘lie’ is that it can be defined as an ‘action or utterance that is intended to deceive.’ Such deceit is rarely punished in its base instance. People can be very clever in how they accomplish a dishonest task so it is not always easy to conclude that a falsehood has been committed. Then there are the fall backs of 'just joking,' a magician's illusion, a game or war strategy meant as a tactic, as a defense when threatened, bantering, needling, or just yanking someone's chain. A falsehood can result just from having inaccurate information in the first place, which does not constitute a lie. Deceit can be almost impossible to prove since it depends on the intent of the prevaricator. At a minimum you've got to come up with a blue dress. So even though deceit is rarely punished on its own, nearly every human failing has some level of deceit at its core. Most of the time we can't flush it out but occasionally the human justice system nabs a culprit. I find that to be proof enough for me of a higher power, lending to my belief in perfect justice that transcends human existence.