There was a thing I read somewhere, long ago...it was the ancient "is it wrong to lie to nazis" thing. And it was...I want to say a buddhist arguing that it is-a but with a truly fascinating argument. Interrogation, you see, relies heavily on your own perception of wrongdoing.
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By lying, you are giving your potential interrogators leverage- a weapon they can use against you. Which ties into a rarely stressed point-the worst thing about many types of wrongdoing isn't what it does to others-its what it does to YOU
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I wasn't suggesting that he was.
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Maybe another way to think of it - the Solzhenitsyn question is about whether one should refute obvious and certain lies, and the moral courage required. But voter fraud is a fundamentally different problem, because knowledge is generally inherently uncertain and contingent.
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