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I can perfectly understand the idea that lying is fundamentally bad, not just because of its consequences. My problem comes up for how that doesn't imply that something else can be bad because it leads to other people lying.
The only way I can understand it is that deontology is fundamentally egoist. It's not hedonist; you worry about things besides your well-being. But you only worry about things in terms of yourself. You don't care if the world descends into sin so long is you are the moral victor. You're not willing to murder one Austrian to save him from murdering six million Jews.
Am I missing something?
Hitler may not be the best example since it's not obvious to me that Hitler's death would have resulted in fewer lives lost during the genocides of the 20th century, because a universe without Hitler would have had a more powerful USSR.
For that matter, Germany could've picked a different embittered, insane would-be dictator. They weren't in short supply.