This chapter focuses on certain features of Kant’s moral theory that interpreters have used to soften the absolutism of the 1797 essay on lying: the notion of moral conflict (H. J. Paton, Barbara Herman), the difference between right and ethics (John Atwell), the so-called right of necessity in emergency situations (Hans Wagner), ideal and non-ideal moral theory (Christine Korsgaard) and the thesis that lying should be permissible when the use of violence is (David Sussman). It turns out that none of these approaches can be made to work.