You can still lie by omission, allowing evidence that shows person A’s wrongdoings, while refuting evidence that shows either person A’s examples of trustworthiness, or person B’s wrongdoings.
If I do 10 things, 8 of which are virtuous and 2 of which are bad, and you only communicate the two to the world, then you will have deceived your listeners. Meanwhile, if another person does 8 things which are bad and 2 which are virtuous, you could share those two things. One-sidedness can be harmful and biased without ever lying (negative people tend to be in this group I think, especially if they’re intelligent)
A lot of online review sites are biased, despite essentially being designed to represent regular people rather than some authority which might lie to you. They silently delete reviews, selectively accuse reviews of breaking rules (holding a subset of them to a much higher standard, or claiming that reviews are targeted harassment by some socially unappealing group), adding fake votes themselves, etc.
You can still lie by omission, allowing evidence that shows person A’s wrongdoings, while refuting evidence that shows either person A’s examples of trustworthiness, or person B’s wrongdoings.
If I do 10 things, 8 of which are virtuous and 2 of which are bad, and you only communicate the two to the world, then you will have deceived your listeners. Meanwhile, if another person does 8 things which are bad and 2 which are virtuous, you could share those two things. One-sidedness can be harmful and biased without ever lying (negative people tend to be in this group I think, especially if they’re intelligent)
A lot of online review sites are biased, despite essentially being designed to represent regular people rather than some authority which might lie to you. They silently delete reviews, selectively accuse reviews of breaking rules (holding a subset of them to a much higher standard, or claiming that reviews are targeted harassment by some socially unappealing group), adding fake votes themselves, etc.