my experience teaching professional lie catchers. T h i s
chapter is not based on scientific evidence. Instead I d r a w
on my personal evaluations informed by thinking about the
nature of lying and attempts to apply my research to under-
standing the larger context in which I live.
Oliver North's Justification for Lying
At one point in his testimony Lieutenant Colonel
N o r t h admitted that he had some years earlier lied to Con-
gress about the diversion of Iranian funds to the pro-Amer-
ican Nicaraguan contras. "Lying does not come easy to me,
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he said. "But we had to weigh in the balance the difference
between lives and lies." N o r t h was citing the classic justi-
fication for lying argued in philosophy for centuries. What
should you say to a man brandishing a gun who asks,
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"Where is your brother? I am going to kill him." T h i s
scenario provides no dilemma to most of us. We don't re-
veal where our brother is. We lie,
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