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April 29, 2005 at 9:23 pm
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Truth isn’t relative. “Lying is wrong” isn’t a truth, but “all human life is sacred” is.
“Lying is wrong” is a general moral precept, but by your example you show it cannot be applied in all cases.
Immanuel Kant explores that exact same thing in some of his writings.