Do you consider half truths to be lies?

Question

I'm not in a situation, I just want peoples opinion =]!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Half truths are just simply incomplete truths.  They can be used in a deceptive way but the truths themselves are just lacking the rest of the truth.

Answer 2

if someones tells them then its a lie

if i tell it then it half of the truth

and they don't need to know my full story.

Answer 3

Law is life itself and not the rules of its conduct. Evil is a transgression of law, not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the law. Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth. The creation of new pictures out of old facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring--these are the artistic triumphs of truth. The shadow of a hair's turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle--these constitute falseness. But the fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth.

Answer 4

half truths are not lies. half truths are linear. one dimensional. limiting the perspective.



it's like you know that all roads lead to rome. but when someone asks you how to get to rome, you just show one road.

as the old saying goes, "it is not permitted to know all things."

even the creation story of adam and eve is a myth. and myth is half truth.

Answer 5

no, like white lies, i just feel misinformed when peole  tell me half truths

Answer 6

Yes, and it is even said the the act of omission is the same as lying.

Answer 7

i don't understand and i hate to make it sound so black in white!  i do know there are gray area's

but what is half the truth!

Here is an example!

I went to the store with a yellow shirt...

that's the truth

here is what i'm thinking your 'Half truth is"

I went to the bar with a yellow shirt

or

i went to the store with a red shirt...

so is it the truth? yes or no!  if so what one is the truth!  or is the half truth not clear enough to equal the truth!

it's a lie!

hope that all makes sense!  great question1

Answer 8

A half truth is that, half of the

truth.  The truth is whole,

absolute.

So, a half truth is lying.

Answer 9

a statement that contains half true things, and half lies, is a half lie/half truth.  

Answer 10

Half truths are half lies.

Answer 11

Yes. On the other hand a certain amount of lying is necessary to balance all the BS insecurity we feel. Just make sure you know the truth from a lie.