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Lying.

But more so if we say that it's immoral to lie, or to give someone who is seeking truthful information untruthful information for some other action we'd like to see happen.

Example, I think this is Kant, but I'm not sure XD

Someone knocks at the door and you answer it, it's a killer and they want to know where your wife is. Do you lie, or tell them the truth if your consider yourself a moral person?

Probably not a good answer, but I tried <3

I see...I do think that murder, stealing, lying and cheating (to name a few; inexact list) are moral in specific, strained, unhappy situations, even if illegal. That is when doing the legal thing is the immoral thing, such as betraying the wife in your example. A similar example is the one they give schoolchildren, about Hans and the sick wife - Hans' choice is to steal the medicine she needs from the pharmacy or watch her die. The moral choice, of course, is to steal, even though he knows he will face arrest.

@Starlock - Sorry, I somehow missed that all topics required a bracketed tag. I'll categorize future topics. 3nodding
I see what you mean about perspective: not only from the definition of one group vs. another (humans and test animals) but for group vs. individuals. In those cases, the "greater good" is taken to be the moral pathway, unless the group is so corrupt it cannot function and deserves to be dissolved.

The Law of Man: The idea that the one thing that separates us from the rest of the creatures in the world is the fact that we have morality; and not just a simple knowing of right and wrong, but a constant within all human beings that declares that some things are right and wrong. It is a law like the laws of mathematics, and it is what helps us act every day; there is "Good", and there is "Evil", and when we feel something in ourselves that detests or praises a certain act, we can choose to act on that.

We can also choose to ignore morality; or, at the worst, we can completely dehumanize ourselves and thereby forgo any sort of Morality whatsoever.

There is only one form of true evil: When a man or woman is so dehumanized or out of their right mind they're capable of doing the most immoral acts without a second thought; murder, war, hate crimes; these are done without consulting ones own morality, or even acknowledging it. This does not mean, however, that a man can not change after he's done these things; morality is always there for us to go back to, for us to see, and for us to act on. It is an alive thing, really, and something that can be built upon.

There is no evil beyond that; only good, and misshapen good. Acts may be immoral to some, but not others, and that is simply because of perspective; what one person does for the good of himself may be deemed wrong by everyone else, but it still achieved some sort of good--therefor it can not be called evil or wrong, it can only be called misshapen by the onlookers. This is where most conflict starts--the lack of understanding between two groups of people, or two people, that leads to mutual disrespect for one another. Sad, really, that people can't try and understand one another more.

That's about it, I'd say. At least for now.

Salaam~