| Is deception tantamount to lying?
If the police come to you and ask if you have a nuclear bomb in your briefcase, and you say no because really you have a dirty bomb, are you still lying? You're deceiving them into thinking that you don't have any hostile weapon in your briefcase.
There are lots of other examples too. Is lying wrong? And is deceiving wrong as well? Do you commit any such actions?
But what's to stop the manic tide,
The suicide of our own pride? The Complex |