Letters to the Editor
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xrandadu Hutman
"You didn't just list facts, you used them to make various points and arguments"
well, yes, the various point being you weren't telling the whole story. I'm not sure how to prove you aren't telling the whole story without, you know, telling the whole story.
"What I'm doing is presenting the whole story."
....to suit your argument"
So in a side-by-side taste test, you choose telling half a story to suit an argument as the more honest way of doing things than telling a whole story an argument? And this in an analysis of honesty? Perhaps you should change your posting name to Irony Man
"It isn't about *not* remembering something. It's about stating a firm memory of something that is completely off the mark from what actually occurred."
speaking of "silly". This is just semantics. Stating an incorrect firm memory is "not remembering"--by which I meant not remembering everything correctly. She got at least half the trip right--you know--the part you choose to ignore. So she isn't completely "off the mark"--she's only such because you selectively choose the start and stop. Guess what--Tiger Woods is a loser. I know that is "true" because he lost this weekend. Oh, that whole X number of wins in a row that came before? I don't count those. It's the "whole story" but that would just be me making the point that he isn't a loser, so I can't count them.
"You're doing mental backflips to try to defend a lie"
I'm doing no backflips but merely assuming a level of common sense, common human nature, past experience with people not running for President, and a willingness to not assume every thing someone does is evil. On the other hand, you're performing some Nadia-like (I know, I know, dated reference. Retton-like? Still dated. Who the hell is a gymnast nowadays?) to defend telling half-a-story as honesty.
"Then you're trying to raise the threshold so high for "lie" that nothing could ever qualify as a lie"
No, I'm trying to apply the same standard I'd apply to most people, which isn't jumping to an assumption that every thing they say that turns out to be untrue is a conscious manipulative lie to benefit themselves in some fashion. Perhaps I move in a lighter, more naive world.
Nice job on skipping the last part of my post, by the way