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And you just shined a light on the slippery slope of lying in politics. Its impossible to draw a line between what is a "reasonable" or "rational" lie when its
by _heimdall 2y ago
And you just shined a light on the slippery slope of lying in politics. Its impossible to draw a line between what is a "reasonable" or "rational" lie when its so heavily tied to one's opinions.
Its never going to happen, but the only reasonable solution in my view is for them to always tell the truth. Maybe they can't always tell the whole truth, but the bar should be that whatever they say is as factually accurate as they can be with what they know at the time.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoIf it's opinion based, then it's trickier to pin it down to being either truth or lie, but if the opinion goes against the opinion of knowledgeable experts then I think that should be communicated too so that people can make a more informed judgement. When the lies are about matters of fact, then politicians should be held to a similar standard as advertisers i.e. not allowed to just push completely false narratives without some consequence. Unfortunately it appears that the U.S. administration is frequently lying about factual issues such as with the NASA mission.