Ethics, Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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"We've spent a lot of time this semester talking about lying and various ways of shading the truth," Anakin began, "and why such things might be necessary. Whether it's smoothing family dinners when your grandfather in law is being a bigoted Republican blowhard and you just pretend not to hear him or when you fake being a vegan to avoid having to eat something that had swum past you a minute earlier, lying, misstating, and obfuscating happens a lot, and at least in the cultures I'm familiar with that seems to be mostly acceptable."

He leaned back against his desk. "That's not the same for stealing or assault, though. You can't just take something, even if you need it more than the other person, or hit someone who is really asking for it."

He shrugged. "I don't have an answer for it, but why do you think words seem to matter less than possessions?"

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