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something major, which will likely be contradicted by some information the victim already possesses, or by their common sense. When the lie is of sufficient magnitude it may succeed, due to the victim's reluctance to believe that an untruth on such a grand scale would indeed be concocted.
* A black lie is told to harm someone else; it is "spiteful" when it harms the liar but "selfish" when it benefits them.
* A blue lie is a form of lying that is told purportedly to benefit a collective or "in the name of the collective good". The

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