lying

I understand we have a mental illness thread, and a Why does Tump lie all the time? thread, but I felt there was something to this topic that lay outside these two. For a long time, I have wondered: does the man actually believe what comes out of his mouth, or is he knowingly lying? Despite him...

I don't understand this. Isn't it an infringement of her 1st Amendment rights if she is no longer allowed to lie on TV? Is there no freedom of speech anymore?

Most people would probably lie to a murderer looking for his next victim and deny knowing where the innocent person was. But what about other situations? I just finished reading Sissela Bok's Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. Bok tackles her subject from the angle of how people...

I had a long conversation with a friend about cold readers. It started with “Why did you go to this conference of skeptics?” and got stuck around this: him: Why do you feel this urge to oppose cold readers? me: Because they lie to people. It would be OK if they actually provided something to...

As I see it, there are three main categories of lies. The first is lies that don't really matter, which can be divided into two groups. There are those who don't know any better, such as children or the mentally handicapped, are expected to lie sometimes. They need to be taught that it is wrong...