Fiction and Lie Online Discussion

A fiction is a socially agreed upon exchange where someone tells a story and someone else knowingly receives the story as fiction, for the purposes of entertainment. Everyone is on the same page; no one in this scenario is being taken advantage of.
A lie, on the other hand, is when the teller takes advantage of the other person. In this scenario, all the social cues indicate that the other person expects truth, not fiction, in this exchange. The other person has been led to expect factual information, rather than entertainment. Yet the teller does not respect this person’s expectation. The teller pretends that they are abiding by an unspoken assumption of a socially agreed upon exchange of truth. However, the socially agreed upon exchange of truth, in the case of a lie, has been violated.

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