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The Inquiring Murderer

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Kant's hardest case: a murderer at the door asks where your friend hides — and Kant holds that even here the ban on lying stands.

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Kant answered the challenge in print: no right to lie from philanthropy, he argued — an answer most readers, then and now, refuse.