Burgundy comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: Burgundy 12 February 2014 05:04:39AM 0 points [-]

These are good questions. It seems like deontologists have difficulty reconciling seeming conflicting rights.

In my main reply to the original post, I discuss some of the conflicts between truthfulness and privacy. If people have a right to not be lied to, and people also have privacy rights, then these rights could clash in some situations.