• GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I see that sort of thing so much, like these people cannot seem to understand that lies are made with a self-serving intention, not just for the sake of lying because liars love it so darn much. Everybody must be completely honest or completely dishonest, the idea of a government's honesty being context sensitive is beyond the liberal.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      I hope none of them are either lawyers or Biblical scholars, just to name two fields where this phenomenon has a name so as to emphasize how crucial a form of evidence it is.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_against_interest