thought before retiring

[fox]

let us not forget that a person who truly believes what he is saying is not lying, even if what he is saying is patently not true.

Comments

[thalia]

Ya think? I'd call that lying, even if it's not intentional.

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that I believe there is such thing as an unintentional lie. If there's no intent to deceive then it's not a lie.

You can be sloppy in passing along information that you haven't checked out or that's from a knowingly bad source, but if you believe it to be true it doesn't quite rise to the level of a lie (*ouch* on the unintentional pun).

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

nah, i think lying is deliberate.

[osymandias.livejournal.com]

I concur, random though the thought may be