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/^t/Lies are also told as pure entertainment. Let's consider cock-and-bull stories. These are highly improbable stories told as if they were true. It is sailors who tell them sitting by a bonfire, for example. In such a case, lying is used as a device to entertain people. We know that sailors lead adventurous lives, that is why we are prone to be deceived by them. By telling lies sailors mean no harm. They simply try to make the atmosphere livlelier. Their intention is that everybody has a good time. Even so sailors' stories are not one hundred percent true the purpose behind them is not morally wrong - it is just entertainment - therefore this kind of lying should not be condemned.