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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (54767)	8/16/2002 10:48:27 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Not lying under those circumstances is even dumber than not eating meat on Friday. But one need not lie. One can simply refuse to answer. So it's not a necessary choice. Absolute truthtelling was a central tenet of early Quakerism. It was one reason they refused to take oaths. (The other was the biblical injunction to "swear not at all.") Their position was that they told the truth all the time, every time. To agree to swear in court that they were telling the truth in their testimony meant that there was an implication that it was acceptable to lie at other times. Their refusal to swear oaths got them into considerable hot water, but it was worth it to them. Sadly, that testimony has, along with some of the other early testimonies, not survived intact.