>This stuff is all a matter of degrees, though, right? You could roughly apply the same line of reasoning to a human: “He wasn’t innately trying to be deceptive

>This stuff is all a matter of degrees, though, right? You could roughly apply the same line of reasoning to a human: “He wasn’t innately trying to be deceptive. He was just put into a situation that caused him to act deceptively”. Not really, unless you're talking about someone performing in a play or something like that, but again, no one really describes an actor as "lying".