{"id":1222,"date":"2010-04-27T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2010-05-20T19:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T23:24:29","slug":"musavada-virati-and-%e2%80%9cprivileged-lies%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/musavada-virati-and-%e2%80%9cprivileged-lies%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Privileged Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 13, 2006<\/h6>\n<h3><em>Mus\u0101v\u0101da-virati<\/em> and \u201cPrivileged Lies\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>J. Duncan M. Derrett<br \/>\nUniversity of London<\/p>\n<p>A privileged lie cannot exist where (1) lies are totally forbidden, or (2) lying is so common that no excuse for it is expected. A lie is \u201cprivileged\u201d where it is commonly excused, granted that lying in general is reprehended. A good illustration is to tell a terminally ill patient that there exist hopes of his recovery. In a system knowing privileged lies these are usually harmless to the hearer. The answer \u201cNot at home\u201d is conventional, a piece of politeness. \u201cI do not know\u201d may well be a lie, but may avoid much trouble. In Buddhism, where there are no privileged lies, one may conclude that lies are so injurious that no convenience can excuse lying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/derrett-article.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 13, 2006 Mus\u0101v\u0101da-virati and \u201cPrivileged Lies\u201d J. Duncan M. Derrett University of London A privileged lie cannot exist where (1) lies are totally forbidden, or (2) lying is so common that no excuse for it is expected. A lie is \u201cprivileged\u201d where it is commonly excused, granted that lying in general is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/musavada-virati-and-%e2%80%9cprivileged-lies%e2%80%9d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Privileged Lies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2712,2711],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-13-2006","tag-lying","tag-truthfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-jI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}