| The most truthful thing to do is to answer yes. However, in this situation, you'd have to make a decision between two wrongs. Which is worse, lying or not standing up to oppression, for your friend, etc.? The person sort of made that decision right when he accepted the Jew in the first place because he realized that he might have to compromise an anti-lying standard to uphold a different goal.
But what's to stop the manic tide,
The suicide of our own pride? The Complex |