However, the message seems to come uncomfortably close to the false premise that there is only one immutable truth on any subject and anything else that deviates from it is a lie. The list of notable "lies" from this list of famous people seems to fail to take into account that each speaker could have believed them to be true with the information they were given at the time or that in other cases the statements were merely aspirational.
If everything that is uttered by humans later turns out not to be true to any degree and labeled a premeditated lie, what is the benefit in such approach?
Thank you for your comment and for reading the article! Anyone who relates a fact or set of facts they sincerely believe is true is not lying, even though we find later that the "facts" they related were not true. Anyone making a statement of "fact" that is purely aspirational must make that disclosure that it is aspirational. Then, the person making choices based on the information is fully informed about the statement. As far as I could determine, every statement I cited was false when uttered, based on available public records. Again, thank you for your comment and for reading the article.
RE: ARE LIES HATE SPEECH?
Interesting article.
However, the message seems to come uncomfortably close to the false premise that there is only one immutable truth on any subject and anything else that deviates from it is a lie. The list of notable "lies" from this list of famous people seems to fail to take into account that each speaker could have believed them to be true with the information they were given at the time or that in other cases the statements were merely aspirational.
If everything that is uttered by humans later turns out not to be true to any degree and labeled a premeditated lie, what is the benefit in such approach?
Thank you for your comment and for reading the article! Anyone who relates a fact or set of facts they sincerely believe is true is not lying, even though we find later that the "facts" they related were not true. Anyone making a statement of "fact" that is purely aspirational must make that disclosure that it is aspirational. Then, the person making choices based on the information is fully informed about the statement. As far as I could determine, every statement I cited was false when uttered, based on available public records. Again, thank you for your comment and for reading the article.