Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie?

• mech@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If omitting information is a lie, then no, you can’t be a successful lawyer without that.
  Your job is to help your client. Informing the opposition of something they missed and that would help their case hurts your client who pays and relies on you.
  But then you can’t be a successful business owner, politician, Union rep or even parent without lying either. Unlimited honesty and transparency isn’t really something society values.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    But if there is no intention to deceive (and I would add no obligation to reveal that information,) then there’s no lie.

    You just don’t provide information.

    If my mom asks “where were you?” And I refuse to answer, I’m not lying, I’m just not answering, right?

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  • YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would argue that hiding information is not always lying.

  There are lies of omission, but it depends on if you are asked about the things you are omitting or not.

  And even if you are, it is possible to steer the conversation away from the thing without actually telling a lie.

  Politicians do it all of the time.

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  • YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thats why the requirement for omission to be a lie is that there is an intent to deceive.

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