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The Conflicting-Rules Objection
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The conflicting-rules objection: two absolute rules can collide — protect the innocent, never lie — and a system of exceptionless rules has no way to choose.
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A border guard hides refugees and is asked directly. Whatever he does breaks one absolute. Absolutism owes him an answer it cannot write.