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[tinyjo]

OK, just for fun, here is the essay question I will be answering this afternoon:

‘It is wrong to tell lies, so patients should always be told the truth about their condition.’ Is this a good argument?

I've turned off emailing comments on this and I promise not to look until I've written the essay (1000 words, in case you're interested). What do you think?

Comments

[zengineer.livejournal.com]

It's not an argument at all it is a statement with a corollary that does not follow since telling the truth is not the same as not telling lies. 1000 words?

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the first half, then I hit up the medical ethics of lying in the second half, since that was the question they were expecting you to answer.