Thread:RedWizard98/@comment-34055410-20190126035631/@comment-35050701-20190127004752

Well in some cases, deception can give someone a criminal conviction, if it is severe enough. The tort of deceit, declares someone can be prosecuted, if such deceit causes someone to act in a way which damages themselves. That is an example of when this rule can apply in some cases.

In my style of writing, I generally use the term deception to describe such villains with a history of deceiving others, often with highly damaging consequences. Whilst often deceiving to others will most of the time not result in someone getting a criminal conviction, to be purely generic I argue it is an general offense against someone to knowlingly deceive them into something which is false and could even harm them in some way.

This is really not a very important issue, thank you.