Mr. McDevitt, the lawyer for World Wrestling Entertainment, told the jurors that Ms. Bass's suit, which demanded $120 million in damages when she filed it three years ago, was nothing more than a "hit job" packed with falsehoods by someone who had failed at what he called the craft of wrestling.
He is in the minority, but Phillips though he continues to DJ, present, and perform is proof that an online falsehood can rip someone's life apart.
These are what scientists call "prosocial lies"—falsehoods told for someone else's benefit, as opposed to "antisocial lies" that are told strictly for your own personal gain.
Why tell someone a falsehood that will soon be discovered if you meet.
"The vulgar falsehoods of the cinema," as someone has put it.
"I really find it almost unimaginable that someone could stand and just tell falsehood after falsehood," Clinton told reporters who asked what had surprised her about the brutal night in St Louis.
I've written before about the "Stupid or Liar" theory — basically, the idea that someone who spews such falsehoods is either being deliberately deceptive or has no judgment.
Guru Arjun was accused of abetting a rebel Mughal prince, Khusraw, and, more significantly, found mention in Jahāngīr's memoirs as someone who ran a "shop" where religious falsehoods were sold (apparently a reference to the Khatri origins of the Guru).
So in his view it is "haram," forbidden, to congratulate someone on something that, according to Islam, is a falsehood.
