LIE OF OMISSION…

Honestly, when it comes to lies of omission, I can’t really say I have had much encounter with it, and that’s because I believe the saying “all lie na lie”, be it lies of omission or ordinary lies, everything is still lies. Let’s call a spade a spade. It’s high-time we stopped painting a bad habit with an innocent color…

If there's one thing i have come to understand about lies in the last couple of decades, it's the fact that not telling the full truth is also a part of lie. The human mind is quite vast and complex, which means it is capable of painting different pictures of things, it all depends on how far you want it to go. Now imagine in a situation where an occurrence like a Burglar incident is being narrated to the POLICE and you as the witness is being called upon to narrate what you witnessed, just as you were narrating the story, you decide to leave out some important clues that could be helpful to the investigation, just because you think it's irrelevant to the case or out of fear. In that situation, such act can cause a lot of damage to the people involved, which is why you are meant to reveal everything the way it played out and how you witnessed it...

To me, lies of omission is as dangerous as outright lies, i would even say it is even more dangerous than outright lies, and that's because it is deeply involved with the human mind, and the human mind is capable of painting different pictures, both positively and negatively. The reason why i think it is more worse than outright lies is because you don't know the relevance or how important that which you have omitted is to the case or event that is being discussed...

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In summary, i would say telling straight lies is even better than lies of omission, at least with straight lies you are concealing the whole truth while with partial truth you are misleading the whole truth, which is very similar to telling complete lies...

In conclusion, both outright lies and lies of omission are equally bad and are considered punishable. It is better to tell the whole truth than to leave anything out. At the end of the day, what is bad is bad, it doesn't have two names to it...