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The weakness of freedom of speech is it also allows freedom of lying. It's the cost of it. I think there could/should be an amendment to constitution that preve
by galaxyLogic 7y ago
The weakness of freedom of speech is it also allows freedom of lying. It's the cost of it. I think there could/should be an amendment to constitution that prevents government officials from consciously lying to people
- educationdata 7y agoThe fact of whether an official "consciously lying to people" is extremely hard to know, because it is a measure of someone's status of mind in the past. The real world is much more complicated than what you could imagine. Take Obama's: 'If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan' as an example. He repeated this message for many many times: https://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/ https://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/ How do you objectively decide: 1) Is this statement true? 2) Did he lie about it? Also, how do you handle "if there is something I should not know, do not tell me"?
- galaxyLogic 7y agoGood points. Clearly there are gray areas. But sometimes it would be possible to prove lying. Just like it is possible to prove some marketing is fraudulent.