[lit-ideas] Re: When Did You Last See Your Father?

  • From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:33:39 -0230



Quoting Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Veronica wrote:
> 
> "I have to know.  What would you do if you were the one hiding the Jew
> and the Gestapo came for him?"
> 
> I would answer in such a way that I didn't lie and the Gestapo left
> empty-handed.
> 
> Phil

An excellent Kantian reply! (Although if you gave them a bottle of the good
stuff, to help them along their merry way, surely you would not be violating
the Categorical Imperative.)

Walter O


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