Fazil Iskander. Beauty and the beast (№ 152401)

- Imagine that rabbit being chased by a tribe of one generalized boa. <...> And the river still have about a hundred jumps. So, whether the right of a leader to cheer fagged out, to exclaim: "the Rabbits, one more effort! The river is only twenty-jumps!"?
- I believe, has said Poziadavky, trying to present the whole picture, then when they get saved, he will explain to them what it is.
"No," said Think, was the wrong converters. After all, the task of saving rabbits infinite in time. After crossing the river, the rabbits receive only respite. Our generalized boa will find somewhere up or downstream from bridges over the river log and will continue the pursuit. After all, the boa constrictor we have generalized, while in the rabbit there is always enough...
- So I think we should keep the right to lie for the best case?
"No," said the Mind, - no such right. No matter how rabbits are grateful to his leader for what he cheered them with his lies, in the mind they will always remain that he can lie. So the next time a signal of danger they will be perceived as a conscious exaggeration. But the leader, lying in the name of truth, have betrayed the truth, that he had defiled her. And how he had defiled her, so he can't respect It... it would be annoying...