The generous lie

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The one who normally lies does it to hide an evil of own authorship of which another is victim, effective or potential. The infidel lies so as not to answer for his betrayal, the spy not to be discovered by the spy, the thief so as not to face the consequences of the robbery or the murderer so that those of death are not charged. There is rarely a trait of surrender or generosity towards others. It is even harder to imagine that the lie can be considered a demonstration of love.

There are stories that challenge the conventions and categories with which we get used to observing, examining and judging our fellow men . There are, even, those that invest them, and not only expel us from that territory of what is known, but place us in front of behaviors that leave out the arguments with which we try to explain the structure of reality and articulate our ideologies And our laws.

There is a well-founded feeling in society that male violence tends to predominate in spousal fighting: the dozens of women who end up in the cemetery every year, the thousands who denounce that violence and obtain the conviction or order of estrangement from their partners They support it. When a woman arrives at a hospital with signs of violence, the first thing is to suspect that the man she lives with or once lived with, even the one who brings her, may be the author of the injuries. And in many cases, the suspicion will be justified and the denunciation of the medical personnel, followed by a police investigation, ends up leading to the imputation of a crime.

What to think, however, when a man with a stab in the back arrives at the emergency room of the Villajoyosa hospital and tells the incredible story that the wound is the result of a domestic accident. How to interpret the superhuman effort of this man to lie while he attends to be treated for a wound that he will have for three days in the ICU . The null credibility of what it refers leads to the sanitary, as in other cases of inconvincent explanations on the part of the victim of some injuries, to bring the fact to the attention of the police , of the Civil Guard in this case. The inquiries of the agents about the circumstances in which the slashing occurred lead them in turn to arrest the couple of the man, a woman who ends up accused of manslaughter in the attempt.

For some reason, history, extraordinary from any point of view, goes almost completely unnoticed. The newspapers collect it, but without hardly underlining it. As if it were the most normal thing in the world that while one was arguing with his wife, she stabbed a knife in the back and the reaction of the assaulted person was to go to the hospital and try to pass the attack through an accident to excuse her . Over and over again the masculine acts that imply disregard and disregard for the dignity and integrity of their partners are exhibited; instead, this gesture of extreme detachment and forgiveness is silenced, or almost silenced, the generous lie with which someone tries to save the woman with whom he lives from the consequences of his criminal action.

This lie that claims the opposite of almost all lies, hiding the authorship of an evil that is the victim who tries to sustain it, is disturbing for many reasons , even if it is not successful. For the resignation to ask for accounts of the knife, in the first place, but also for what one can imagine that he intended: did he resume living with the frustrated murderer after leaving the hospital? It is possible to imagine that its protagonists will not have much desire to talk about the incident, but it would be as interesting to know his reasons as what she thinks , when he ends up in the cell from which his man has tried to rid her at all costs.

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