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This is only true if the other party is aware of the circumstance. If they are not - if they are already deceived about the circumstance - then if everyone lied in the circumstance, the other party would still be deceived. Therefore lying is not self-defeating.
I was just pointing out how Kant might justify self-defense but not lying in self-defense, in summary. If you'd like to disagree with Kant, I suggest doing so against more than an off-the-cuff summary.
Though I don't recommend bothering with it, as his ethics is based on his metaphysics and his metaphysics is false.
Understood.