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The Lying Promise Fails the Test

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A maxim of making false promises when convenient cannot be willed as universal law: universalized, promising itself collapses, and the maxim destroys its own tool.

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Will a world where everyone lies for loans. In that world nobody lends on a promise — so the lying promiser's plan cannot even be stated.