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Yes, I was planning to mention that today - as an illustration of when you would willfully take on the unsimplicity and unforeseen pathways of lies.
That's a dangerous sort of path to go down - the idea that anything that persuades someone of what you believe to be true must be a good argument to make, without further restriction. It doesn't just take us toward the clever arguer; it takes us into the realm of manipulating people "for their own good", using lies for the sake of what is argued to be a greater epistemic good. This is the rationalization brought to me by many of the foolish advisors.