Annoyance comments on Is Santa Real? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Court_Merrigan 14 March 2009 03:03:16AM *  3 points [-]

This is ridiculous. A "truth twister"? This isn't hypocrisy. This is lying. To yourself, mostly. Unless you live in a cave, you tell white lies every day. Ever say Good Afternoon when you didn't feel like it?

This sort of moral highhorsing gets us nowhere. Stop it, please.

Comment author: Annoyance 14 March 2009 04:52:44PM 3 points [-]

"This isn't hypocrisy. This is lying."

Lying is making a false statement with the intent to deceive. Refusing to make a statement isn't lying unless silence is itself a statement.

Deception, now, is a different matter. All of the things CronoDAS mentioned are certainly deceptive, but they're not lying.