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I'm genuinely curious, since you claim to never lie.. How do you resolve Kant and Lying to the Murderer at the Door dilemma [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/

• bin_bash 5y ago
  I mean, I just made the decision to quit lying years ago and haven’t encountered any situation I can recall where I felt lying would be helpful. It’s probably possible to come up with contrived situations where lying is preferred, but I’m not convinced these situations occur in my life. (If I lived in North Korea I would not have the luxury of approaching my life in this way.) That said: Kant’s dilemma is so contrived it’s practically useless. It assumes you can predict the future. Lying to a murderer might actually make things worse. Sam Harris does talk about this dilemma in his essay on Lying if you’re interested in a more educated take: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-x4ByD3mMjIdTMC0H https://archive.org/details/pdfy-x4ByD3mMjIdTMC0H (page 13)