The prohibition is against such behavior within one's own group, like murder and all that other stuff.
--- On Thu, 12/25/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>
> In the US cheating and lying in service to the empire is
> acceptable and encouraged although there is a preference not
> to have the falsehoods publicly exposed.
> Those behaviours also encouraged if used to make gobs of
> money as long as you don't cheat and lie to members of
> the ruling class.
> Fleecing public funds and fleecing the working class by
> deception is considered virtuous.
> The exemptions on the prohibitions against lying and
> cheating are so numerous as to make the idea of a general
> prohibition against such behaviour pretty meaningless.
>
> John Thornton
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