TY - JOUR T1 - Lying and nudging JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 496 LP - 497 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2012-101060 VL - 39 IS - 8 AU - Gerald Dworkin Y1 - 2013/08/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/39/8/496.abstract N2 - Salvaging the Concept of Nudge 1 makes a number of good points about how the concept of a nudge should be understood, and a number of important distinctions in specifying more precisely the important idea of freedom of choice. As Saghai suggests, this is a first cut, and more work needs to be done in clarifying the issues so as to make the idea of a nudge a useful tool for policy purposes.In this Commentary, I want to explore some of the difficulties that remain in getting a clear understanding of the ideas used to clarify the idea of freedom of choice, in particular, the idea that some influences are easily resistible and some are not. In particular, I am interested in the use of various deceptive modes such as lying, failure to disclose and misleading utterances. I believe that there is an important ambiguity in thinking about these deceptive modes which throws some doubt on the adequacy of the idea of resistibility.The key definitions are the following: Substantial Non-control: A's influence to get B to α is substantially non-controlling when B could easily not α if she did not want to α. Easy resistibility: A's influence is easily resistible if B is able to effortlessly oppose the … ER -