The Lie Detector is a marvelous essay with details concerning lie-detecting technologies and the moral implications thereof. The author is clearly against using lie detectors although he does not shoot down some of their uses. In The Lie Detector the author first explains how lie detecting technology works and some of their uses. Clearly the technology would be quite interesting and useful in certain settings. Albeit, a person with the correct skills and training could falsify the results.
Finally the author ends with the moral dilemma concerning Lie Detector technology. And that is a humane and moral one. We shouldn't need lie detectors, most of us know inherently that lying is wrong; Some of us know that lying in any case even when it seems good, is wrong. When we have to resort to a lie detector, there is a problem. And as the Author says, God forbid man ever creates a machine that can see into the mind and heart.
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