“We will not lie, steal or cheat, and we will not tolerate anyone among us who does so. » This is the United States Air Force Academy's code of honor that every officer must follow upon entering duty. But is this code supposed to be followed absolutism – without fail – even if one can benefit oneself or others from a white lie? What happens when an officer is at a dinner with his wife and the hostess approaches him to ask if he liked his meal, when he didn't? Is the officer obliged by the code of honor he has sworn to uphold to tell the truth, or must he preserve the feelings of his hostess? John Stuart Mill believed in a theory of rule utilitarianism, where the consequence of an action decides whether the action is ethical or unethical and actions are only moral when they conform to the rules that lead to the greater good. Its director of Greatest Happiness said that the most ethical action was that which allowed people to feel pleasure and the absence of pain. If a lie is told and the result of that lie is that a person is protected and...