tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post546891400316176600..comments2023-10-31T15:14:05.373+00:00Comments on Hagley Road To Ladywood: More Daily Mail bollocks on immigrationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-75607089852631817922009-09-21T00:41:29.106+01:002009-09-21T00:41:29.106+01:00While the liar intends to deceive you as to the tr...While the liar intends to deceive you as to the truth and must therefore know what is true in order to lie, the bullshitter need pay no attention to what is true – his aim is not to deceive you as to the truth, it is simply to get away with saying what he does (to “misrepresent what he is up to”). Excessive indulgence in bullshitting undermines the ability of the bullshitter to tell the truth (”a person’s normal habit of attending to the way things are may become attenuated or lost” in the words of Harry G Frankfurt), whereas a liar is still able to distinguish between what is true and what is false (which he must be able to do in order to be able to lie in the first place).<br /><br />So is the Daily Mail lying or bullshitting?Anitahttp://www.londonist.comnoreply@blogger.com