I’m agreeing with you to an extent....just saying that lying in certain circumstances can be criminal...because in certain circumstances it is fraud.
Say you lie about qualifications for a job...and then they find out you didn’t have the proper training.....FRAUD. They should be able to prosecute you for a crime of lying on the application and be allowed to rightly fire you.
There are legal ramifications for lying in those type of circumstances....if a person is lying about military medals to get a job as a security person and a man of character....he should be able to be prosecuted for fraud if he is found out and trusted by some family.
Our system of free enterprise was established to exist—as the Founders said—upon a moral, religious people. You should NOT have to have any laws for fraud (which I consider lying to be).
My philosophy teacher told me in his Nigerian country built on moral relativism and sanctioned lying, that you couldn’t have successful business transactions. Every transaction consisted of bribes and you could never trust anyone, like they used to by a handshake in the US prior to the 1950’s.
People should have an “expectation of truth” when they are dealing with everyone. For instance, you can not successfully deal with Muslims...because they have a different moral code than Christians, that allow lying. They can cut your head off if you are not looking according to their laws.
Criminal fraud laws are not affected by this decision. This decision merely states that Congress does not have the Constitutional authority to make social lying or bragging a crime. THAT should give all of us a measure of relief!