[BrandoElFollito]

I didn't read the book, but anything else than lying is intellectual cowardice (if you were brave enough to hide people).

It is like those people (I do not remember which religion it is) who will let their child die rather than have blood transfusion. No matter the philosophy, they do not love their children, maybe not even like them.

Same with priests who, for their own comfort, would not go to the police to tell about a pedophile who is about to go for a child, just because this was told under the secrecy of confession. Going to the police and therefore condamning oneself to hell would be the courageous thing to do, not to be "intelectually pure"