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by QuantumChaos 4292 days ago
Selectively providing information is not equivalent to lying.
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That's the second time in a week that I come across that statement on HN. You'd be surprised how the rest of the world views lies of omission, hint: not kindly.
Lying by omission is not the same thing as not mentioning irrelevancies.
There are lies of commission and lies of omission.
You know the bit in a court, when they ask to hear "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"?