[ExI] The void left by deleting religion

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/5/07, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
> When would you lie?  Presumably you would  lie to protect your own life,
> the lives of those you love or  humanity.    So what are the
> extenuations on your ethical prohibition against lying?
>

*shrug* It hasn't been put to the test yet - most of the time telling the
truth is the right thing to do in all ways, after all. At a guess, I'd say
it's when the harm to be averted by lying is sufficiently direct and
immediate to, in the colloquial sense of the words, constitute "fact rather
than just theory"; from a utilitarian viewpoint, one could look at it as "is
this definite enough that the usual fallibility argument for ethics doesn't
apply"?
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