My Values — Other People’s Values

Abstract

In the previous chapter we saw that once we explore an issue such as honesty in depth, it tends to become ever more problematic. The sureness we have about the idea dissolves when we subject it to a searching analysis. Honesty started off as a clear moral value, then we saw situations in which it could be right not to be honest, and eventually we had cases in which it was no longer clear what was the honest course of action — where all possible options would result in someone being deceived.