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• A reply on Conversation: If you tell a lie and it becomes the truth, does it matter that you once lied?

  Nov 18 2012: In regard to the Nazi example, how would one effectively leverage silence?
  
  Considering your personal preference to avoid lying, would you avoid telling your children that Santa exists?

• A reply on Conversation: If you tell a lie and it becomes the truth, does it matter that you once lied?

  Nov 17 2012: Linda are there not circumstances in which lying is a necessity? To take an absolutist stance, in which 'lying is never worth it' seems problematic. Take for example a German during the Nazi regime who is lying to protect a Jewish friend from persecution. In such a case is an absolutist stance valid?