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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (6662)	10/2/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Lying is in self defense most of the time isn't it? I mean isn't it ussually when people are on the hot seat that they lie. I know the other times are when your trying to con someone.

To: pezz who wrote (6662)	10/2/1998 6:26:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<The law does recognize circumstances >> Here we agree - the law recognizes mitigating circumstances. That's why not all killing is murder, just as you say. That's also why not all lying-under-oath is perjury. We actually never were at odds over this particular point. Let's look at this a little differently - we all agree that it's okay to do just about anything to save someone's life, up to and including killing someone else (most people would kill an intruder that was about to kill their child, for instance). Therefore, if the President does something in order to save someone else's life (including killing someone), I doubt there would be much call for impeachment. The same would go for stealing to save someone's life, lying to save someone's life, etc. Can you say the same for killing to hide an affair? How about stealing to hide an affair? Maybe a little judicious blackmail to hide an affair? Do you see the difference? Lying, stealing, cheating are all wrong. However, there can be mitigating circumstances. Protecting someone's life gives you a lot of "mitigation room". It's not a selfish act. Hiding an embarrassing incident gives you a lot less of a mitigation factor.