Whoever was leaking that information to Novak, Cooper or Judy Miller was doing it with malice aforethought, trying to set up a deceptive circumstance.
Superficial appearances may be deceptive: just because the circumstances that produce learning in two cases, along with the consequences of that learning, appear quite different, it does not follow that the processes underlying learning are different.
But some is occasioned by modern military recruitment, recruitment that, under current circumstances, smacks of deceptive advertising.
But then some observers may know that the circumstances are of this deceptive kind and not be disposed to assent, while others have no such knowledge and are disposed to assent.
In some circumstances (e.g., amnesia, or receiving deceptive information about your identity) it is no sign of irrationality to not know who you are.
Mr. Scott has the kind of deceptive, buttoned-down look and approach that make such bizarre circumstances believable -- almost.
"But a company that knows in effect that the disclosure is deceptive or misleading can't be shielded from accountability under many circumstances".
In the circumstances of this study, where callers are not visible, deceptive 911 callers may restrict their verbal responses, exhibiting low affect or shortened responses when compared to truth tellers.
When self-deceivers induce ignorance of moral obligations, of the particular circumstances, of likely consequences of actions, or of their own engagements, by means of their self-deceptive beliefs, they are culpable.
Superficially, Mikey's circumstances – provincial, pedestrian – differ dramatically from those of the young refugees Ness aimed to help, but appearances are deceptive.
