Crime & Punishment

　What I most despise is to tell a lie.

　Once you've told a lie, you'll be forced to add it to another lie. One lie after another you will be made to tell. 

　As a Kantian, I am determined never to tell a lie to whomever I meet. 

　Telling invariably one truth after another sometimes makes me fatigued and exhausted. But once I have established my maxim never to tell a lie, not only must I obey the rule, but I want you to respect it. 

　Of course, there are times when you cannot help telling a lie and I know you cannot live a single day without telling a lie however trivial it may be. But I dare not allow anybody to think it is a natural course of things to tell a lie. 

　You said that I told a lie. But I have never told a lie when I've written about the other noters on "note". 
　A certain noter insisted I was wrong because there is no definite evidence. But I just want to insist what I think is right.

　The unforgivable is simply the unforgivable.   

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