Though a lot of what Kant is saying makes sense some situations might hinder us from complying with what he suggests. Say that we’re in Poland in 1940 and I’m hiding Jews in my house. What should I do if the Nazis were to come knock on my door and ask if I was hiding Jews. Kant would say that it is my duty to tell the truth even though it means the deaths of the people I was hiding. Because if I were to lie to the Nazis and I saved the Jews in my house my lie there are still consequences on the world for lying. By lying I made it seem as it were okay to break my duty. “ For a lie always harms another; if not some other particular man, still it harms mankind generally,for it vitiates the source of law itself.”
