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The Mikado
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« on: October 20, 2008, 09:25:03 PM »
Wasn't Kant's scenario that the person you'd be lying for might have decided to change hiding spaces, and that, by lying, you'd lead the murderer right to him?  (It's been two years since I was forced to slog through Kant, and I didn't pay much attention when I did)
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