Hiding a truth is different from lying.

Lie is an intent of persuading others and misdirecting someone to believe something else. However, hiding the truth is basically not bringing the real truth to the surface and making sure it stays HIDDEN (Completely unaware in the eyes of the victim). Yes, I know you put up those sources of their definition and I very well know what a "Lie" means. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your 1st rebuttal was: "I put up those sources and different dictionaries to show my opponent that no matter what dictionary the word is it will have the same meaning." I am assuming that your picture of lie is pretty black and white by that statement. If I am not telling the truth, it means I am lying no matter what, be it hiding or manipulating. Lying depends on it's integrity of manipulation. However, hiding is simply hiding. There is no manipulation required in hiding anything. For example: Hiding a secret is hiding and making sure no one knows of it. However, backstabbing on someone's secret or trust is lying. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your 2nd rebuttal: "My main argument is not in the perspective but rather what the dictionary says to prove my point." Like I said before, anyone who reads this knows the definition of lies and providing dictionary sources to prove your point will not be helpful. This debate serves a purpose of clearing the mind with doubts, whether hiding the truth is really different from lying. You said that your argument is not about perspective, But doesn't the whole Concept of Lying has to do with PERSPECTIVES? You simply can't rely on dictionary sources to prove you point. Moreover, when it's a word that the whole world is familiar with. :/ Especially in a debate, you cannot go black and white with what a dictionary says sometimes, this is why we have debates. Moreover, one of the most important aspects of a debate is to provide examples or scenarios to support your statement that a reader can relate to and make it easier for him to judge your statements. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You 3rd rebuttal: "Lying is all about falsehood and providing a false statement that is true,but why should hiding the truth be the same, you are providing a false statement to protect the "truth" your hiding from the person." In order to explain this to you, let me give you a scenario: There's a couple and their names are A (husband), and B (wife). Let's just say B is going through a lot of work stress. She looks very distressed and needs to rest. This work stress has been going on for a month for B and she is clearly not handling the pressure very well which is eating her up. However, the husband receives a call saying that one of her loving family members has passed away. But looking at her stress level, he decides to share this information when the time is right. He is clearly hiding the truth from her, but at the same time also protecting her and because her wife doesn't know it yet, he does not have to provide her with any false statement because she is simply unaware of that situation. Therefore "He is NOT providing a FALSE statement, to protect the truth. He is simply hiding the whole situation from her." So you see hiding the truth doesn't necessarily involve telling lies to hide the truth only when the person is completely unaware of the situation. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your 4th rebuttal: Hiding the truth does change things. You have to give out a false information to hide the truth. That is lying. If the person believes in your false statement you provided to protect the truth then you are changing his perspective and someones perspective is your main argument. Again, Imagine a bar with perspective in the middle of the bar. Lying and manipulating makes the bar (or perspective) go left on that line, but hiding the truth does not effect a bar. It keeps the bar straight (Imagine a see-saw). And just like the scenario I provided on the last rebuttal, it clears this argument too. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In my point of view, Lying is a process of manipulating people's mind and telling them something that goes AGAINST the fact. Hiding the truth is a process of keeping the truth hidden and making sure that it does not float to the surface which is not necessarily going AGAINST the fact but also not STATING the fact (In some scenarios).