Telling lies

Some French philosopher spent a whole day in bed wondering, "If I benefit from telling a lie, should I do it?"

I haven't told a lot of lies.  I might lie to someone who was unreasonable, and would clearly handle the truth in and way that just made things worse.

I remember this really lame public service ad put out by the Mormon church with singing and dancing kids telling real kids not to lie.  The predicted that if you do you'll feel bad and "start to cry." Well, that's my problem.  If I tell a lie it's up to me to handle it without feeling guilt.  And if I do handle it that way, the Mormons won't like that:  they want me to feel guilty and cry!  But I won't let them, so there!