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/^t/"If you repeat the lie a hundred times it'll become the truth". Isn't a lie a conventional phenomenon with it's limits established within a particular culture? Let's take complementing, a phrase: "..You look gorgeous" can serve as a gambit to a conversation, an expression of somebody's real judgement or simply a lie to mollify someone. Because lying is omnipresent and commonly used, one may go as far as to say that it is not always immoral and should not always be condemned.