Parents read to their kids to shut them up
Captain Hook and other tempting lies bordering on truth
Bad guys and the truth
Villains have a knack for telling lies that if you squint hard enough can appear as truth. They use manners of speech, relativism, gradations of truth, and technicality to mask ugly intentions, cynical assumptions, and an ugly heart. Consider the Joker in The Dark Knight,
“When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, …