I always thought this was a bullshit cop-out.
No you didn't, you lied.
I mean they're not even bound to tell the truth like the Aes Sedai, who anyway manage to deceive plenty. Plus even if Vulcans had some kind of instinct to only tell the truth, Spock is part human.
s1e9 "Prime Factors"
How'd this manage to use both it's and its for same thing?
Idunno, just copy pasted from IMDB. And I'm terrible at proof reading.
Sometimes lying is the most logical course of action.
I think they technically say that Vulcans don't lie, not that Vulcans can't lie. That would imply that they prefer to avoid it, but can if they need to. I mean, if Tuvok couldn't lie then he never would have been able to go under cover as a member of the Maquis.
Chakotay: Welcome to the Maquis Resistance, are you spy?
Tuvok: That would be logical.
And the show is over before it begins.
Londo: I do not lie when I say this could have been a major embarrassment to all concerned.
Sheridan: Oh, I'm sure ambassador. You don't lie, the Minbari don't lie, no one around here...
Londo: Who said the Minbari don't lie?
Lying is practically all the Vulcans do according to Enterprise.
We'd never build a spy outpost underneath our holiest monastery!
you see it was only our second holiest monastery. And that spy outpost was first.
Can't argue with that kind of bulletproof logic.
"We Vulcans are incapable of lying... about everything but that stuff."
All Vulcans know how to do is be bisexual, eat hot chip, and lie.
I don't understand why people assume Vulcans and Data can't lie because they don't have emotions.
You don't need feelings to lie.
I don't understand why people assume Vulcans don't have emotions. Their emotions are stronger than those of any human.
Which is why they work so hard to keep them in check. If only we could take a note from that.
They're largely autisticly coded, and we don't generally lie, to the extent that it causes us problems. So I'd guess people are picking up on the coding.
It's known on earth as politics
Where you bend the truth, modify explanations, omit certain facts, exclude details, interpret data, make your own calculations or highlight known unknowns as well as unknown ones. Then you talk in great detail about everything without ever passing along any new information ... it's a highly developed skill.
But in everything you do ... you never lie, you never tell an untruth .... you just use logic and reason and stating certain truths while omitting others to make the other person believe what you want them to believe.
Also true for Minbari.
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
