The fact that this is an obvious lie makes it a better shibboleth, because people in your outgroups are hesitant to pay the reputational cost of repeating it. In a case like this one, the lie can get people killed by encouraging underestimations of a man's propensity to violence.
The fact that this is an obvious lie makes it a better shibboleth, because people in your outgroups are hesitant to pay the reputational cost of repeating it. In a case like this one, the lie can get people killed by encouraging underestimations of a man's propensity to violence.