Panzer Boy writes:
I do ask you L Detweiler, what you consider of this case. In "real-life" awhile back there was a womem who was an actor. She didn't like the fact that she needed an agent to get w>ork. So she invented a personality, an became her own agent. She aquired a different personality, different voice patterns, etc, for this agent. She made sure the agent did everything over the phone, never meeting clients in person. Soon after doing this, she started being an agent for other actors also. She obviously spoke well of her actorself when she was in her agentself, and she obviously kept two personalities. Is this wrong? Should this women not have done this?
Yes, she was being deceptive. No, she was not being maliciously deceptive, as her "agentself" was merely doing the same thing that a seperate agent would have done, being an advocate for the actor. The difference is that the third party _expects_ the agent to praise the actor. In L Detweilers example, the pseudo-spoofer was using the _lack_ of expectation to his/her advantage.
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