Monsignor Pope Ping for OSV column.
Crazy man with gun enters your home, say, “I’m here to kill your wife!”
Do you tell him, “upstairs, first door on the right.”
I used to lie for the government. It was codified in my job description, except they used a more palatable word than “lie.”
In the world of men, one sometimes can avert a greater evil through the preemptive commission of a smaller one.