: Re: Can a statement that is incorrect still characterize someone as wise? This is a discussion I had with another writer. In a screenplay, a young man who is being led astray by a charismatic

While I agree with your specific objection, and would never myself call an intentionally untrue statement intended to conceal some fact anything but a lie, I am not a character in a fictional work and the character in question is certainly not me.

The line "That isn't a lie" is fine as-is, and it also serves the useful secondary purpose of expressing the viewpoint of the character who speaks it. Specifically, it says that they are a character comfortable with white lies who sees nothing amoral with enabling someone else's self-deception.

(And it'd be fair to call our remorseful liar wise despite their falsehood, fwiw.)

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