Fundamentally, a liar and a coward are one and the same.

@SW-User

Trolls are too underrated!

@SW-User

"After the announcement of the Japanese surrender, fifty U.S. soldiers imprisoned in Osaka were executed by Japanese soldiers."

I wonder what happened to those Japanese murderers????

@Perry1968

I like and respect Lewis but Mike would've destroyed him if both were at their peak. Lewis got lucky against one of the Ukrainian Klitschko (Vitali) brothers, too. Any further into the fight before it was called due to cuts and Lewis woulda been knocked out.

@bijouxbroussard If you take things to the extremities, you can justify almost anything. Some people think it's okay to lie. I am sure that isn't your position.

The essence of the post was that individuals lie out of fear of the consequences of telling the truth. I believe that holds true even in the given scenario. While it may not always be the case, it certainly holds true most of the time.

So true, courage isn't about being devoid of fear. However, if fear leads you to compromise your ethics, you've surrendered to it. If you resort to lying to evade a feared outcome, you haven't confronted your fears directly. You can't claim, "I stood my ground and spoke the truth," when in reality, you did not.

@bijouxbroussard If I were in the scenario I would certainly lie to save the innocent Jew. However I would also acknowledge that I had to compromise on my principles in order to do what I thought was right. [b]Doing wrong to do to right [/b] sometimes necessary...

@Justice4All If you must lie to save innocent lives because they’re being threatened by evil (Jews by Nazis or Blacks by the KKK), the lie is for the greater good. And in that instance there is nothing for which to reproach oneself.