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To Lie or Not to Lie: That Is The Question

Within the next few decades, we'll have created technology so accurate that it can not only pick up when you're lying but also what and why you're foing it. This vreakthrough can then be used on anyone from politicians to war prisoners. The question is: do we have the moral right to demand that these devices be used on public officials or even prisoners? Can we legally use it in courts or for suspected interrogations if it's not delibrately harmful to a person? Can we lower violence and political scandals while at the same time breaching a person's mental privacy? 

Note that terrorism has expanded not only within foreign nations but within "suicide neighborhood bombers", and so we'll have to fear an attack from outside and in our own cities or towns. Is one person's privacy worth another person's life? 

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Sometimes folks do have to lie if that lie is to prevent hurting another person's feelings.

Side: Yes
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That is not something that I can support. The government would abuse that.

Side: No