Oathtaking and oathbreaking used to be something of a big deal. How y'all feel about going back on shit you say? Does the involvement of a holy book change your answer?
I think preoccupation with truthfulness and propriety is probably good, but what is expedient very often does not align with that. So my word probably is not bond lol
My ideals are that one should always be as honest as possible and appropriate within the context. Kant can fuck off, I’m not telling the killer where the person is hiding. Depending on the context that may mean lying, a weaselly answer that’s not a lie, or simply not answering.
That being said I also lie a lot because the personal cost of being truly honest all the time is very high in a society which accepts a certain level of dishonesty. I called in sick yesterday, I was hungover from my uncles birthday. If I worked in a coop rather than retail I would have been honest because the stakes are different.
I guess we might have to differentiate between “lies that are valid under capitalism” and “lying as whole”.
I don’t break oaths though.