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What is this concept called?
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tightsocks
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Sep 14, 2012, 08:22 AM
 
Let's say someone wants to kill himself and asks the doctor to give him a poison pill.
The doctor believing that the person can be helped by a form of medication gives him a beneficial drug and tells him that it is poison.

Is there a term for this strategy or concept?
     
subego
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Sep 14, 2012, 08:53 AM
 
Lying. It's called lying.
     
The Final Dakar
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Sep 14, 2012, 08:56 AM
 
You read my mind.
     
andi*pandi
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Sep 14, 2012, 09:23 AM
 
Or, malpractice.
     
Waragainstsleep
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Sep 14, 2012, 11:59 AM
 
Or House.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
   
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