Hence one who offers us as reasons what he believes to be false is a liar at least by intention if not also in fact.
Little better if at all, and indeed sometimes worse, is one who in his own understanding offers reasons that, though valid, are defeated by better.
And then there are those who offer what they believe irrelevant, or what they think would be that if true.
We ask for bread and we are given stones.
But all's fair in love and war, eh?
And politics is just war with less violence.
What is one to do, after all, if, about to be religiously slaughtered, he sees that a lying story of God's will may help?
If, about to be punished for the most moral of reasons for a harmless episode with a consenting adult, he sees that a certain meaningless moral jabber might get him free?
Did not Bill Clinton's defenders remind us with a sort of shrug that everyone - yes, they said that, everyone - lies about sex?
And business is business, is it not?
And, anyway, what is all this nonsense about what's "fair"?
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