We all lie all the time: “No, honey that dress doesn’t make you look fat.”, “No one will notice your comb-over.”, “No, officer, I didn’t realize I was speeding.”, “Sure, that project will be done on Tuesday.”, how you look and act on a first date. We all want and expect to be lied to. To count it as some sort of moral failing only depends on the degree and harm inflicted in both the lie’s effect and in response to the liar (used here as a descriptor, not a judgment).
We all lie all the time: “No, honey that dress doesn’t make you look fat.”, “No one will notice your comb-over.”, “No, officer, I didn’t realize I was speeding.”, “Sure, that project will be done on Tuesday.”, how you look and act on a first date. We all want and expect to be lied to. To count it as some sort of moral failing only depends on the degree and harm inflicted in both the lie’s effect and in response to the liar (used here as a descriptor, not a judgment).