Lying and the Path to Truth

    Lying is a fairly hot topic in morality, for we are not suppose to lie, but are there not times when doing the moral thing means we actually should lie? In the PowerPoint you read on philosophy and informal fallacies, I had a slide with the different types of lying; in that slide I had the contention that belief without proof is actually worse than lying, because someone who believes without proof is saying truth has no value. Write an essay to explore the nature of truth and how it should be given out. Read “BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON” by Stephen Vincent Benét - see attachment. A good source: http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Outings/RosemountGhosts/Babylon.htm (Links to an external site.)