cede that the correct
             and expected action is to tell the truth. By asking she has already
             decided, good or bad, that she must know the truth. What if
             telling the truth brings the widow to the point where she commits
             suicide, however? Is telling her the truth then a moral action
             although its consequence is this terrible response? If telling the
             widow the truth drives her to commit suicide, it seems like no
             rational being would will the maxim to become a universal law. The
             suicide is, however, a consequence of your initial action. The suicide
             has no bearing, at least for the Categorical Imperative, on whether
             telling the truth is moral or not. Likewise it is impossible to judge
             whether upon hearing the news, the widow would commit suicide. Granted
             it is a possibility, but there are a multitude of alternative
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