Kant’s whole shit about it being morally wrong to lie gets used as a “well if an axe murderer came to your house and asked where you family is would you have to tell him the truth”
A desperate woman bangs at your door telling you a man with an axe is chasing her, and asks if she can hide in your house. You believe helping people threatened by murders is good and therefore universally good so you let her in. A man with an axe comes knocking at your door asking for this woman.
You believe telling the truth is hood and therefore universally good so you tell him where she is. You might think that helping murderers is bad, but this man simply explains that they are playing tag and the axe is the mechanism of the game.
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