An Atheist Contemplates Lying

This goes to show the deformation of ideas about right and wrong when people think they can just figure out all that morality stuff for themselves -- as, evolutionarily speaking, why should they not?

I was struck today by Jerry Coyne's post at Why Evolution Is True, noting Sam Harris's new e-book, Lying, in which Harris denounces all telling of untruths. Self-help guru Tim Ferriss writes in a blurb for the book, "Humans have evolved to lie well," yet "Harris demonstrates how to benefit from b...