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Tell the truth, now: Is it okay to lie?
There are Trump-level lying and everyday fibs. But there are always consequences.
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Honesty might be the best policy most of the time, but discretion, tempered with kindness and empathy, is also the better part of valour.
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It’s become fashionable to say we live in a post-truth world. The Oxford English Dictionary says it means “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping political debate or public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.
We see this played out on the world stage, with former United States president Donald Trump. The Washington Post’s fact-checking team found that by the end of his term, he had accumulated 30,573 untruths – averaging 21 erroneous claims a day.
