On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Faustine wrote:
> Maybe, but whether they're picked up on is the only thing that counts.
Actually not, if the various agents involved act as if the lie is the
truth then at some point their actions will come into conflict. In fact
this sort of behaviour can lead to the failure of various sorts of
inter-personal commerce (not the money kind, definition #2) without the
individual agents necessarily ever understanding why.
Simply because nobody can stand up and say "That's a lie" doesn't render a
lie harmless.
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