Once I wrote odd things in the margins of my notes during a philosophy class:

“Brad, I’m breaking up with you. You don’t recognize me as a self-determining human being.”

permanent obligation to tell the truth, not necessarily obligated to tell whole truth
AXE MURDERER: Mel, where’s Joe?
MEL: I refuse to tell you Joe’s whereabouts on the grounds of my belief that you do not intend to treat Joe as an end in and of himself.
AXE MURDERER: Tell me or I kill you.
MEL: Though the consequences of my actions may be to die, I will make a moral choice.
AxE MURDERER: Damn Kantians.

priest to evolutionist: what have you learned from your years of study of God’s creatures?
evolutionist: that he has an inordinate fondess of beetles.

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