Throughout my life, I’ve noticed that otherwise righteous people are willing to lie if they think it can do good.
Historian Marc B. Shapiro writes: “If you are convinced of the correctness of your position, it is not hard to construct an argument, based on traditional Jewish sources, that false attribution and even forgery is permissible. In the book I am currently working on I bring all sorts of examples of this which I think will be very distressing for readers, as it is in complete opposition to what most of us regard as basic intellectual honesty.”
