In the months leading up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (known colloquially as Obamacare), President Obama and the Democrats insisted on numerous occasions that the individual mandate was absolutely not a tax. Instead, they argued that the power to impose the mandate was enumerated to Congress under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
Today, the Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate is not constitutional under the Commerce Clause, but can be considered constitutional on the basis that it is by definition a tax.
Assuming that you consider the passage of the ACA to be in your best interest, are you comfortable with having been lied to for your own benefit? Is lying justifiable when it's in the service of a greater good?
Is lying justifiable when it's in the service of a greater good?
2012-06-28 5:53 pm
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2012-07-02 4:18 am
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Certainly lying is not justifiable in this case, because there is disagreement about whether the ACA is indeed in the people's best interests. If I were being chased by murderers, and you knew where I was hiding, but you told the murderer I went the other way instead, I would consider that to be a justifiable lie. The murderers had no right to seek my life or to get you to help them; and you were not obligated to tell them the truth.
But we are talking about a democracy, where people have the right to due process; and there is no justification to lie in order to pass a law.
2012-06-29 1:38 am
No, lying is lying. The above example assumes the public is too stupid to take care of themselves.
2016-10-13 9:25 pm
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