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That's an interesting position. Is there currently any country on earth which has a general law against telling lies?

• rsynnott 4y ago
  Most countries have some form of civil defamation law, but generally you have have to be lying about a _specific person or entity_. Some countries (not as many as you may think; a lot of things described as hate speech laws are really incitement to hatred laws, which is a little different) also have hate speech laws which in principle may prevent maliciously lying about specified groups of people, but in practice, the bar for actually prosecuting someone under these is usually extremely high. I'm not sure anywhere has a ban on _all_ lies, though. You can generally say that the sky is green, or even usually tell lies about non-protected groups ("all lawyers are criminals" is clearly a lie, say, but unless the context makes it clear that you're using it about a particular lawyer, you're probably fine).