"This case is about deception; this case is about cover-up".
Today, American laws generally make two kinds of sexual deception illegal: cases where someone impersonates a person's partner (by sneaking into their bedroom at night, for instance), and cases where someone such as a doctor tricks a patient into thinking a sex act is actually some sort of medical procedure.
Our data suggest that it is doubtful that deception in such cases would be strongly opposed to these participants' wishes.
The case can't be made that the deception in this case is any more egregious than any other, so why all the outrage?
In the song, the girl that the narrator loves hides from him by assuming the identity of a traffic cop and a flower bed. Bruce Springsteen, "Brilliant Disguise" (1987) Like the Who's song, this sketches out another case of emotional deception, though in the case the costume looks exactly like the original woman, minus love.
Although not conclusive evidence of deception in this case, anecdotal observations suggest that these calls may indeed be deceptive because they often distract the aggressor and, to the benefit of the caller, cause the interaction to end abruptly [Di Bitetti, 2001].
In this case, deception was moral, he says.
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that the "government's failure to offer any evidence supporting even an inference of willful and knowing deception undermines its case".
"Criminalizing earnings management plus general deception in a case not involving insider trading will scare the daylights out of officers at Adelphia Communications, Tyco International and, of course, at Enron," said John Coffee, a professor of securities law at Columbia University's School of Law.
The possibilities for self-deception in such cases are endless.
