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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sage Genesis" data-source="post: 6531773" data-attributes="member: 6706099">Probably nothing because it's a linguistic and philosophical puzzle rather than an actual attempt to deceive someone. Zone of Truth is a magical, mind-influencing compulsion. It invades the brain (or soul or whatever) of a subject and makes it so they can't make a deliberate lie. The sentence, despite its phrasing, is not a real lie: it's a paradoxical statement meant to provoke thought but without any real subterfuge behind it.As for why people would talk: why wouldn't they? Silence will be taken as an admission of guilt and wins you nothing. Many people who kill another or commit a similar crime feel they had no choice in the matter and the Zone of Truth can strengthen that claim. When it's established beyond reasonable doubt that you had little to no choice, judgments may well become more lenient. Besides, it feels good to confess. It's all well and good to calmly sit here at our computers and talk this over like rational beings but guilt gnaws at the soul. And if they're proud of what they did... well, again, why remain silent? Tell all the world about what a rotten bastard that guy was so you're glad you killed him. With ZoT in place, you just know the "victim" was a bad one.</blockquote>