>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, William T Goodall wrote:
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>> [a] Lies are evil [1]
If you were living in Belgium circa 1943, and had a Jewish family in your
basement, and two guys in tacky uniforms ask you "Wo sind die Juden?" and
you say "Ich weiss nicht", your lie was *not* evil.
QED lies are not evil.
JDG
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People everywhere want to say what they think; choose who will govern
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