Theme: Deception

  • White, Grey, Black, Lies in P-Law

    Oct 29, 2019, 7:54 PM by Stephen Thomas No one really cares if you lie for vanity’s sake. That’s a white lie.

    Libel, Slander False Advertising Baiting into Hazard Fraud private or Political Subversion of the Commons Conspiracy to subvert the Commons All of which are well defined. Those are black lies. You must lie in public to the public about matters public or conspire to propagate lies to the public about matters public And worse, you mustn’t lie FROM a position OF influence TO the public ABOUT the public, about products, policy, economics, science or law. If you want to tell everyone you wear the wrong size shoe. No one is gonna to arrest you. We will however laugh at you for being so damn petty!

    (—“I would tell you your baby’s is cute, your children are beautiful, your wife is lovely, and you are charming, brave, and witty. None of those is true. But they demonstrate I will invest in building trust in our relationship.”—CurtD )

  • The Reason for Truthful Public Speech Is Economics of Lying, and The Enemy’s Ind

    The Reason for Truthful Public Speech Is Economics of Lying, and The Enemy’s Industrialization of It https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/the-reason-for-truthful-public-speech-is-economics-of-lying-and-the-enemys-industrialization-of-it/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 15:16:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265663085609713667

  • The Reason for Truthful Public Speech Is Economics of Lying, and The Enemy’s Industrialization of It

    Oct 30, 2019, 6:30 PM by Jeff Levin

    —“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”—

    A lot of people on the right have a hard time letting go of classical liberalism and its tolerance for lying and parasitism. It’s already illegal for me to lie in the marketing of my business. Why shouldn’t politicians and public figures be held to the same standard???

  • The Reason for Truthful Public Speech Is Economics of Lying, and The Enemy’s Industrialization of It

    Oct 30, 2019, 6:30 PM by Jeff Levin

    —“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”—

    A lot of people on the right have a hard time letting go of classical liberalism and its tolerance for lying and parasitism. It’s already illegal for me to lie in the marketing of my business. Why shouldn’t politicians and public figures be held to the same standard???

  • Only Falsehoods Create Complexities

    Only Falsehoods Create Complexities https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/only-falsehoods-create-complexities-2/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 13:37:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265638337391591426

  • Only Falsehoods Create Complexities

    Oct 30, 2019, 10:39 PM (don’t get pissed at me for this. it’s true. Truth isn’t always pleasant and the law isn’t always something people are willing to enforce.)

    —“The abortion topic is a paradox and a false equivalency for example. Too complex to boil down to a yes or no.”–Wade Rogers

    mmm… I just say it’s undecidable, not because it is complex, but because the only moral thing to be done is not commit the crime of fertility in the first place, creating the undecidable moral hazard. We don’t do the right thing because we don’t want to. But the right thing is to punish the mother. It cannot happen without her conspiracy. So that is the violation of natural law – period. But since we wont enforce it we convince our selves that abortion is complicated. No, all lies create complication. The truth is simple. Edit

  • Only Falsehoods Create Complexities

    Oct 30, 2019, 10:39 PM (don’t get pissed at me for this. it’s true. Truth isn’t always pleasant and the law isn’t always something people are willing to enforce.)

    —“The abortion topic is a paradox and a false equivalency for example. Too complex to boil down to a yes or no.”–Wade Rogers

    mmm… I just say it’s undecidable, not because it is complex, but because the only moral thing to be done is not commit the crime of fertility in the first place, creating the undecidable moral hazard. We don’t do the right thing because we don’t want to. But the right thing is to punish the mother. It cannot happen without her conspiracy. So that is the violation of natural law – period. But since we wont enforce it we convince our selves that abortion is complicated. No, all lies create complication. The truth is simple. Edit

  • Nov 1, 2019, 7:58 AM No, the enemy isn’t ‘revolutionary’ they’re ‘undermining’

    Nov 1, 2019, 7:58 AM

    No, the enemy isn’t ‘revolutionary’ they’re ‘undermining’.

  • Nov 1, 2019, 7:58 AM No, the enemy isn’t ‘revolutionary’ they’re ‘undermining’

    Nov 1, 2019, 7:58 AM

    No, the enemy isn’t ‘revolutionary’ they’re ‘undermining’.

  • Belief and Profession of It, Are Almost Always Lies

    Nov 1, 2019, 12:58 PM I do not know what you believe. I cannot know. I can only determine judge you by your actions. If you testify to an un-testifiable belief, then you can only lie. If you lie then you have a reason to lie. I can only seek to discover the reason you lie. I cannot distinguish a profession of belief in an un-testifiable lie, from any other lie. Belief is irrelevant. Either you imitate thew works of jesus or you are just another liar, fraud, and thief. Keep a diary of the actions you make in the service of others for no other reason than the love of others, and the cost to you for having done so. If it is not an action, is not in the services of others, is not in the service of other by your personal service to them, then you are a liar and a liar, fraud, and thief, and your claims of Christianity are no different from wearing the uniform of those who did service, when you have not done so, a pretending to equal their honor. No. You are just a free-rider. A parasite on other’s labors. A free rider on those few christians who exist, just as a free rider on those few warriors that exist. A christian ACTS. Profession of belief, and belief are irrelevant.