Tag: Lying

A man puts wooden blocks with the words Fact and fake. Concept of news and false information. Yellow press.

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Kenneth Francis
Date
May 28, 2026

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Things We Say But Do Not Mean

_{By telling white lies or mangling the English language, we’re often economical with the truth} _{Kenneth Francis
May 28, 2026

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Tabloid subeditors often write of sick babies struggling to stay alive as being ‘brave’, but babies are too young to fully understand heroic virtue or practise it.

Lying: Sam Harris Buckled Under the Weight of Absolutism

_{Part 1: Having written a book on why it is always wrong to lie, he shamelessly buckled when a particular outcome mattered to him} _{Erik J. Larson
September 12, 2025

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If lying breeds chaos, so does truth-telling in the wrong contexts. Prudence, not absolutism, has to govern.