[LMB] Uses for telepathy: Terrence Cee. revisited

[Scott Raun]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:25:34PM -0500, Eric Oppen wrote:
> Off the top of my head, one good use I can think of is acting as a 
> "Truthsayer" in trials.  If someone's lying on the stand, it would be worth 
> a lot to have a _trustworthy_ telepath handy to give the judge and jury the 
> high-sign when it's happening.
> 
> Another, related, use might be in police work---again, the ability to _know_ 
> when someone's fibbing would save a lot of effort.

For both of these, the telepath has to be differentiating between
'telling the truth as he believes it to be' and 'lying'.  The judge,
jury, cop, etc., all need to keep in mind the possibility that 'truth
as he believes it to be' could be a mistake.  Not to mention the fact
that some psychotic / delusional types can be high-functioning - they
can work in the real world, but you really don't want them giving
court testimony on the subject they're delusional about.  Think about
conspiracty theorists...

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Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org