Is Lie Acceptable?

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Whenever you ask "is it ever okay to lie”, people always answer as “it depends on the situation”. Maybe some of you may consider the consequences that the lie may lead to, or the motivation of the person who tells the lie. But for me, it’s definitely a “No”. You may then ask me, haven’t you ever lie? Of course everyone lie, including me. Lies are used to gloss over something you don’t want others to know. The motivation of lying can be virtue, can be evil, or including both. So that’s what you are arguing – the virtue lies. This leads to another question – What is a “virtue lie”? A virtue lie can be an act of protecting someone from being hurt, a virtue lie can be an act of facilitating the “best” consequence for the majority. The have one similarity – the liars “assume” the results of lying and telling truth. But who knows the actual results? We cannot predict the future. You lie because you think lying can lead to a better result, although you got a virtue motivation of lying, but a wrong assumption may even put you into a much worsen situation. You can’t simply agree that lying is okay when you have a virtue starting point as you can’t guarantee a better result after lying. We cannot guarantee the result of lying, but we can guarantee one point and it is always true, lying is an act of cheating which is something “wrong”. For instance, a mother got a cancer but only her son knows. Her son attempted to stop the doctor from telling her the truth as he didn’t want his mother suffering from depression. Some may see the son was doing something right. Well, I don’t. I would rather describe this as filial instead of right. Because the son hinder his mother from knowing something that she should and got the right to know – in other words, it’s lying. What if his mother uncovered the lie and felt disappointed on her son and much more depressed? There are so many

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