Only all else being equal is the truth clearly preferable to deceit. If the choice of deceit allows to save the world, it’s inevitable for any notion of human morality to prefer deceit.
It’s not inevitable. Nor is it likely, in balance, that deceit would have such large and positive effects. Far, far more probable is a shallow but wide flood of corrosive harms.
Only all else being equal is the truth clearly preferable to deceit. If the choice of deceit allows to save the world, it’s inevitable for any notion of human morality to prefer deceit.
It’s not inevitable. Nor is it likely, in balance, that deceit would have such large and positive effects. Far, far more probable is a shallow but wide flood of corrosive harms.