The Voice of Time wrote:Should a person be honest when it does not necessarily benefit a situation and the situation is an extreme one?
For instance. While virtually everybody will agree that if you are hiding a person from Nazi kidnappers you should not tell the Nazi officers when they come looking that you are indeed hiding them. But, should you, given that the chances were low that they would not search more anyways, show off your disrespect or hatred for them in such a way you are not directly pushing them but still communicating dislike or moral disgust?
In other words, should you stay honest in such a situation given something else other than the hot topic of where the people are but which still is a form of offensiveness that could be reacted upon... ?
I see that in extreme cases, 'honesty' should only ever beget 'honesty.' As the Nazi's approach your home, they 'honestly' believe you're possibly hiding their prey, and that in doing so you're being 'dishonest,' to their cause. You have to ask yourself if you 'honestly' wish to protest your hideaways and yourself, from potential death, at the hands of the 'dishonest' Nazi's. Not that they're being 'dishonest' with respect to their belief system, but that their belief system is 'dishonest' to the nature of the universe. So if you can instantly vaporize them, merely with a look, or have some other equally assured defensive mechanism, then by all means 'honestly' tell them what you think of them, and that you have hideaways, as you can still be 'honest' to your mission, in the keeping of the 'honesty' of, 'live and let live,' life, if not however, then be only ever 'dishonest,' in an only ever extremely 'honest' manner of acting, as they are being 'dishonest,' and that is what they believe you are, in keeping with their 'dishonest' cause, otherwise, they would have passed your house by.