on 27/11/02 4:16 pm, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: >> No, all lies are still evil. > > Fiction is a form of creative lying (fictional stories are, by definition, > not true, and anything not true must be a lie, right?). So is fiction evil?
Lie - a false statement made with the intention of deceiving: anything misleading or of the nature of imposture. Fiction doesn't pretend to be true, and therefore isn't a lie. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
