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...though it is also worth noting that humans are evolved to be reasonable lie-detectors.
If your actual beliefs don't match your signalled beliefs, others may pick up on that, expose you as a liar, and punish you.
You can choose to think of signaling beliefs as lying, but that's not very helpful to anyone. It's what most people do naturally and therefore not a violation of anyone's expectations in most contexts. Maybe instead it should be called speaking Statusese.
People don't pick up on the literal truth of your statements but on your own belief that you are doing something wrong. For instance, writers of fiction aren't typically considered immoral liars.
One could as easily say that it isn't useful to consider lying from the viewpoint of morality.