When would keeping one's own counsel be considered a lie?
I don't have any problem with your definitions. But I will note that punishment for contempt of court gets applied much more frequently than does punishment for perjury.
People do take offense at being called liars in particular, but is being called a no good, weaslin' dissembler within whom the truth does not live really that much less offensive? I think not. And if the car being red means the defendant is innocent, is omitting that fact less evil than lying?
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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