> but I can imagine many people would see telling a noble lie (of omission) to defer that inevitability for as long as possible as the right call. Whatever the

> but I can imagine many people would see telling a noble lie (of omission) to defer that inevitability for as long as possible as the right call. Whatever the benefits of that “noble” lie are have to be weighed against entire generations of people learning that there government has no qualms about lying to them.