Jacob said to his mother Rebekah: but my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. The practical objection is not moral but tactical: the deception might not work. Jacob's concern is not that the plan is wrong but that it might fail. The absence of moral objection from Jacob is consistent with his character from the birthright episode: he is a schemer who operates in the territory of the technically permissible. The application: the absence of a moral objection to a deception does not make the deception right. Jacob objects to the risk, not to the sin.

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