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So we're going to talk tonight about the intrinsic evil of lying. This tends to get people

pretty excited and we'll talk about some of the fun cases toward the end of what I have

to say here.

But yeah, like I'll just open up by saying I'm going to defend like a really hard-line extremist,

homist position on this, right?

Like, you should never lie.

You shouldn't lie to your wife about how she looks in that dress.

You shouldn't lie to your children about Santa Claus.

You shouldn't lie to the Nazi at the door. yeah, I'm going to defend, I'm going to defend all of that, both in general and in particular.

And obviously, hopefully we'll have some fun in the Q&A about the hard cases, because I think

there are obviously hard cases, including some cases that I think

don't get very much attention but are actually what I consider to be the hardest cases.

I don't think the Santa Claus or Nazi cases are the hardest cases. I think something else

is the hard, potentially the hardest case. Okay, so we're doing philosophy.

Whenever we're doing philosophy,

first thing we definitely want to always make sure

we're doing is have a careful definition

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