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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Spock's Honesty
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:02:12 EST
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In article <392@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes:
>> > In the discussion of Spock's honesty, has anyone brought up the fact
>> > that Spock may have lied when discussing his race's honesty?
>> 
>>             Now listen to me carefully, Norman.  I am lying!
>
>  Spock didn't say that.  Harry Mudd said it after Kirk told Norman
>  that everything Mudd says is a lie.
>

True, but I do recall Spock fibbing on other occasions.  For instance,
he told several lies in the episode (whose name I can't recall) in
which the Romulan cloaking device was introduced.  On other occasions
Spock has told lies or made deceptive statements when it was necessary,
as in the episode quoted above, where he tells a pair of the Alices
that he loves one of them, but hates the other.  In short, whether or
not to tell the truth is subject to the same relentless Vulcan logic as
everything else.  He tells the truth when it suits him.  Of course he
claims to tell the truth always because his occasional lies are more
effective if people believe this.