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hasn't lying has always been a business model?
by nerd_in_rage 14y ago
hasn't lying has always been a business model?
- dredmorbius 14y agoIt's been a business practice, certainly. And it's been part of law and lore since the dawn of history. The code of Hammurabi includes punishment for false witness: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3153879?origin=JSTOR-pdf http://www.jstor.org/stable/3153879?origin=JSTOR-pdf In Dante's Inferno, the penultimate (8th) circle of hell is for the fraudulent (the 9th and innermost is for traitors -- another form of fraud, if you like): http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/rp_dante_hell.html http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/rp_dante_hell.html