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A [[False Truce]] is when a person who has had a conflict with another person, is not interested in resolution or ending the conflict, but in promoting the conflict further. This is the guise of pretending that they are perfectly okay with whatever conflict had transpired. Because they have not accepted any [[Accountability]] to their role in the conflict, they will usually spread gossip, defame the character of the other person ([[Character Assassination]]), to retaliate for the self justification they made up from their [[Ego Defense Mechanism]]s. | A [[False Truce]] is when a person who has had a conflict with another person, is not interested in resolution or ending the conflict, but in promoting the conflict further. This is the guise of pretending that they are perfectly okay with whatever conflict had transpired. Because they have not accepted any [[Accountability]] to their role in the conflict, they will usually spread gossip, defame the character of the other person ([[Character Assassination]]), to retaliate for the self justification they made up from their [[Ego Defense Mechanism]]s. | ||
==Character Assassination== | |||
[[Character Assassination]] is a deliberate and sustained process that aims to destroy the credibility and reputation of a person, institution, social group, or nation. Agents of character assassinations employ a mix of open and covert methods to achieve their goals, such as raising false accusations, planting and fostering rumours, and manipulating information. | |||
Character assassination is an attempt to tarnish a person's reputation. It may involve exaggeration, misleading half-truths, or manipulation of facts to present an untrue picture of the targeted person. It is a form of defamation and can be a form of ad hominem argument. | |||
For living individuals targeted by character assassination attempts, this may result in being rejected by their community, family, or members of their living or work environment. Such acts are often difficult to reverse or rectify, and the process is likened to a literal assassination of a human life. The damage sustained can last a lifetime or, for historical figures, for many centuries after their death. | |||
In practice, character assassination may involve [[Doublespeak]], spreading of rumours through [[Malicious Gossip]], innuendo or deliberate misinformation on topics relating to the subject's morals, integrity, and reputation. It may involve spinning information that is technically true, but that is presented in a misleading manner or is presented without the necessary context. For example, it might be said that a person refused to pay any income tax during a specific year, without saying that no tax was actually owed due to the person having no income that year, or that a person was sacked from a firm, even though he may have been made redundant through no fault of his own, rather than being terminated for cause.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_assassination] | |||
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