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Originally posted by DA Morgan:
It is not a case that lies and deception come with consideration of the events ... but rather self-deception and dissembling is the instinctive response.
This might be a natural (instinctive?) use of Occam's Razor. When information comes in that doesn't fit the model a person has been using, the first reaction is to question the new information, rather than the model.

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