THE MANNERS OF TRUTH It is one thing to argue whether x leads to y “is true”. It

THE MANNERS OF TRUTH

It is one thing to argue whether x leads to y “is true”. It is another to argue whether we and our opponent’s speak truthfully.

And now, we know, that the statement “x leads to y is true” can *only* mean “I promise you will also find that x leads to y”.

We have been indoctrinated into untruthful speech. We have become a culture of liars. We have lost Grammar, lost Rhetoric, lost history.

Imagine a news talk show, where one spoke truthfully and the other didn’t.

We can and should call liars liars, and even vectors for lies, liars.

Because it is true.

To treat manners with higher priority than truth is to let others steal from the normative commons merely by their utterances. And moral men neither can steal, nor tolerate stealing from others.