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Guede's possible motive for lying seems astonishingly clear.
They are rather the products of everything from joshing to outright lying when lying seems the only logical way to advance a legitimate idea.
He is caught between the father and the Father, who are in cahoots, and his addiction to lying seems to have evolved partly as payback: defiance at the gross inconsistencies that emanated weekly from his father's pulpit and which his clear young mind was unable not to register.
The example of not lying seems ill-chosen, because Kant's own theory does not treat it as a fundamental moral requirement, but rather as a duty derived from a fundamental requirement (MM 6 429 31).
Nowadays, the cost of being caught lying seems less obvious.
In writing this post, I'm trying to maintain a neutral stance on which party and which candidates are the most disingenuous and dishonest, but I will say that lying seems to be reaching its apogee with less than two months until the election, though I'm sure there will be new heights (or depths, depending on how you look at it) to be reached between now and November.
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It was equally forbidden to make laziness or lying seem attractive.
Jibes at Bush - 'How quaint does impeaching a President for lying seem now?' - stood comfortably alongside more confessional jokes about fame, family and therapy.
Just when the post-election theme of lying seemed to be receding into the background, the revelations about General Petraeus' affair became our national obsession.
"The Mirror" and "Lie" seemed to be real DT fan favorites and segued together.
Perhaps it was an inadvertent error, in which case calling it a lie seems much too strong.
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