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As the deceiver, she must be aware she's deploying a deceitful strategy; but, as the deceived, she must be unaware of this strategy for it to be effective.
The requirement that the self-deceiver intentionally gets herself to hold a believe she knows to be false raises the 'dynamic' or 'strategic' paradox, since it seems to involve the self-deceiver in an impossible project, namely, both deploying and being duped by some deceitful strategy.
This deceitful strategy is used primarily on Muslims and Arab-Americans, but a string of recent cases shows how political dissidents are also being entrapped, both figuratively and literally.
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A strategy known to be deceitful, however, seems bound to fail.
But if it's impossible to be taken in by a strategy one knows is deceitful, then, again, self-deception as it has traditionally been understood seems to be impossible as well.
Dr. Caner has since apologized for his language, but he still maintains that the "Camel Method," a strategy Dr. Rankin endorses for preaching Christianity to Muslims, is deceitful.
How deceitful!
It is deceitful.
It's deceitful".
"Their movement is deceitful.
This is cowardly and deceitful.
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