• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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      23 hours ago

      Which isn’t the case here.

      “lying” means “saying something that you know is untrue with the goal of deceiving someone into believing it”

      You can lie as a mean joke on someone’s expense (haha look at that idiot believing my lie)

      But if you don’t actually intend to deceive someone beyond the end of your joke, you’re not lying. You’re joking.

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        19 hours ago

        But if you don’t actually intend to deceive someone beyond the end of your joke, you’re not lying. You’re joking.

        you’re just a compulsive liar with a pinch of rationalization… but you still get off on deceiving people… even if you ‘intend’ to let them know you were lying… as a ‘joke’… haha….

        the ‘joke’ being that you find it funny when you successfully lie to people, but when caught, “it was just a joke, bro”.

        oh hey, let me think of all the classic, hilarious jokes that involve lying to people… hmmm… i guess most people don’t do that, unless it’s a setup for a punchline….

        everyone hates compulsive liars.