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Originally Posted by foundit66
I was brought up to understand a "white lie" was a lie you told out of politeness. Concern for another's feelings.
But in looking up "white lie" now, I see definitions of "unimportant lie".
While there is an addendum of "especially for politeness", the implications are that all it has to be is a lie you don't feel is "important", and that opens the field wide open...
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EXCELLENT observation...
If I may add the rain to your thunder, people seem to have a clever way(as in "straight out lie") for
justification of bad behavior...
people don't like to think of themselves as necessarily bad, so they spin the reasoning to clear themselves...
"Big corporations steal from the people, so I can lie on my taxes...I DESERVE IT."...
"I'm gonna sue that convenient store because I'm a moron and slipped in their parking lot...They can afford it."...
"I saw that guy drop the $20 bill, but hey...He should be more careful."...
"I'm not gonna let the guy into traffic...I got important stuff to do."...
