Truthfulness, Deceit, and Trust - Olena's

Perspective of the Deceived
From this position, Aristotle has said, “Falsehood is in
itself mean and culpable, and truth noble and full of
praise.”
22 “There is an initial imbalance in the evaluation of
truth telling and lying. Lying requires a reason, while
truth telling does not.”
Lying “must be excused; reasons must be produced, in
any one case, to show why a particular lie is not ‘mean
and culpable.’”