Intentions to lie to a friend when seen through Bok's eyes are accepted because there is no hidden agenda for the person to ultimately be harmed. Bok would consider lies told to friends to be white lies, which he deems acceptable. You tell lies to friends to try to protect them from being hurt; so you care about their feelings and especially their well-being. 3) What is the relationship between freedom and rationality according to Fried? Freedom, rationality, and consensus almost always go together (e.g., social contract theory). Does Bok's argument about consent to deception undermine this relationship? Why/why not and how/how not? Fried states that freedom and rationality are the basis of moral personality. When a man is free he is able to make rational decisions because his judgment perceives that his actions are correct. The rational man judges for himself what is right and what is just. We are free when we use our rational judgment to come to a conclusion that is best for us. Freedom and rationality are the same aspects of moral capacity. Moral capacity is an important characteristic of what it means to be a human being. Moral capacity is the ability to recognize the choice to act and to recognize the results that will derive from the choices made. Social contract theory is one in which a person's moral and/or political obligations are based on a contract between them to form the society in which they live. Freedom, rationality and consensus play a role in social contract theory because without these three things the contract could not exist the way it does. A rational individual voluntarily agrees to give up his natural freedom to obtain political or... paper... truth benefits, because there is a group of people who come together to establish what is true for other individuals. Individuals who follow the discourse of truth live in the truth. For the conception of reality, the individual cannot live in the truth because he knows that he is lying to himself because he wants something to be reality. An individual cannot live in truth when he knows that what he is trying to make reality is not. In speech, there are things that may actually be true, so no one guesses for a second. Every society has its own regime of truth which is the "general politics" of truth, which is the type of discourse that accepts and makes functions true. So, with these general policies of truth established from the beginning, individuals are more likely to live in truth because they follow the rules that were established before them..