For example, kindness and honesty cannot always be used together. There may be times when it is kinder to lie, as in the example of the ax murderer used in Kantian ethics arguments, which states that it is your duty to tell the truth and let someone be killed. Virtue ethics would say that the kind thing to do is to lie and prevent murder, but that means there would be a conflict of virtues with no way of knowing whether it's right because while one virtue is upheld, another is ignored . This is a weakness because it means that there are always times when it is not possible to provide a solid solution to a