To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'