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Originally Posted by 1436
I disagree. Even when someone tells you why they did something you still don't know why they did it. All you know is what they told you. The real reasons are often least understood by the actor.
"I don't know why, but I've been told what happened." That seems to be the most honest response.
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But that's different from simply "I don't know". I took RT's formulation as "I don't know" what, not why*, which would add dtb to the pass-the-buck brigade and also be untrue.
*note that answering "why" with anything other than a variation on "I don't know" is *also* untrue, unless she--inexplicably--decides dtb is her confessee and spills the totality of her motivation, and even then, a variant of "I don't know" would remain mainly truthful.
