PrincessTristan wrote...
Well to answer your question I would like to suggest to you that we probably lie a lot more than we realise or want to admit. Even little things like not picking up the phone because you don't want to speak to the person of the other end is potentially a "lie" (after all you are basically pretending not to be there).
In my line of work (medical) we unintentionally lie a lot. Not blatantly like "you are not going to die" to terminal cancer patients but more like avoiding the truth. Often we will have a hunch that a particular lump in a patient is going to be malignancy but we avoid telling them that because we are not sure about the diagnosis until the pathology report comes back. I personally think that patients have a right to know what doctors are considering as their top differentials even if it is a death sentence.
You raise an excellent point. To clarify, I'm talking about lying in the sense that you are intentionally saying something that is not true.