Occam's Knife Game:

People who are in deep denial about what they nonetheless know to be the truth will offer up every explanation they can imagine except the correct one in an effort to sustain their denial. You can tell they understand the truth of the matter, because of how carefully and completely they avoid it.

See also: spit-balling, red herring, motivated reasoning, dishonesty.

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