On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Jim Thompson <j...@netgate.com> wrote: > > > So asking the question is stupid(*), because a lie is indistinguishable > from the truth. > > I disagree on that point. Even if one is sure to get a "no" answer, regardless of the truth, it is still useful to ask the question for at least two reasons I can think of:
1. To get the response on record. The responders can be held accountable should it ever come out they knowingly lied. 2. To examine the response for credibility. A simple yes or no answer might not yield much, but such is rarely the case. If the answer is delayed, unclear, couched in a bunch of rhetoric or handwaving, delayed or avoided, then any or all of these things will be taken into account by those asking the question or observing the response. This is a principle that is understood by courts of law, psychologists, interrogators, and people of intuition. db
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