While it is true that you can mislead by omission, every ommission of information is not an attempt to be dishonest. Sometimes you just don't want people to kn

While it is true that you can mislead by omission, every ommission of information is not an attempt to be dishonest. Sometimes you just don't want people to know one way or the other. That is the scenario I described. Many in this thread say that not answering is dishonesty, and ascribe my not answering the question to intending to lead my wife's grandmother to believe that I liked her food. As I believe I pointed out earlier, my intention would not be to lead her to believe that I thought it was either good or bad -- I was not going to reveal the answer at all. Leaving someone in the dark with no intention of pushing them to incorrect assumptions is not dishonesty. Also, people can make incorrect assumptions about what is meant by what is said, even when the speaker has no intention of them making those assumptions. It is the intention of the speaker that makes omission of information honest or dishonest.