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/^t/It is reasonable to say that one cannot treat all lies and the people who tell them in the same way. One has to differentiate between the lies which can never be justified, and those which can and even should be excused. Those are the small lies told almost every day by most of the people, the lies told to avoid hurting someone else's feelings or to prevent someone from being killed, and the lies told to defend some ideal of higher value. In such situations judging those who lie should not be carried out, unless there are victims of somebody's lies. But if it is not a criminal case, the lying person should not be condemned, because whether they lie is the problem of his or her own consciousness, not the problem of others.