Never mind that lying is what really roils stocks.
It is actually one of the very rare occasions in a movie when a character is shown lying without any explicit, retributive moment of disclosure, however small, to reassure us that the liar knows what he is doing and that lying is wrong.
In general, even those philosophers who hold that all lies have an inherent negative weight, albeit such that it can be overridden, and hence, who hold that lying is defeasibly morally wrong, do not incorporate moral necessary conditions into their definitions of lying (Bok 1978; Kupfer 1982; cf. Wiles 1988).
One is to hold that talk of properties, beliefs, truths and facts comes cheap: Once one holds sincerely that "Lying is wrong," no additional commitments come with adding "Lying has the property of being wrong" or "I believe that lying is wrong" or "It is true that lying is wrong" or that "It is a fact that lying is wrong".
Tomorrow I must remind them that lying is a sin.
"Even children understand that lying is wrong," she said.
Other philosophers do not believe that lying is confined to the verbal sphere.
And even with therapy, I don't have reassurance that he will understand that lying is wrong.
For Grotius, a harmless falsehood is by definition not a lie, so saying that lying is immoral is tautological.
For good measure, it is also smart and supple enough to acknowledge that lying is not all bad.
"It indicates that lying is legitimate in the military prosecutor's office in order to protect the troops".
