Douglas_Knight comments on Deontology for Consequentialists - Less Wrong
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I don't see how lying to the murderer fails the test you quote, yet Kant does forbid it elsewhere
ETA: perhaps it's OK to lie out of love of money, but not out of love of man?
Added, years later: by "love of money," I mean that Kant says that it is OK to lie to the thief, but not to the murderer.