Bonjour, hello, and welcome to Socrates at the Bus Stop. My name is Theo Lachance, and for eleven years I taught philosophy to eighteen-year-olds who had not asked to take it. This show is the version of that class I wish I had been allowed to teach. One question, thirty minutes, no reading required. Today's question: is it wrong to lie to be kind? Your friend gets a terrible haircut. She asks what you think. You say it looks great. Have you done something wrong? One very serious German philosopher says yes, always, no exceptions. An English one says it depends on what happens next. I will read you a little of both, in plain words, and then I will tell you where I land, and you can disagree with me on the way home. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.