To what extent is lying permissible? Reading complicated articles on philosophy and psychology of lying makes people more anxious to know about the truth of lying. And one can ask to what extent is lying permissible? Every writer has different opinion about lying. Russell claims, lying is morally wrong, Carson believes in some cases it is preferable and Mazur states that different traditions advocate the lying in different circumstances.
Kendra Lawrence English 102 June 19, 2013 No Justification for Lying to your Nation In all areas of life there are times we accept lies and other times we are disgusted by them. Telling a lie isn't always a bad thing. A lie for self-serving purposes, like gains that were not earned, deserved, lies to keep yourself out of trouble, lies to put others in situations detrimental to them, are unjustified lies. Not telling the truth for unselfish reasons, for the sole purposes of helping, inspiring, giving others hope, preventing harm to others, is called a white lie. According to Wikipedia, “white lies are minor lies which could be considered to be harmless, or even beneficial, in the long term.
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.
The Danish helped the Jews escape from the Germans. Both parties had lied to the German soldiers which was not a great idea. I strongly disagree that lying in order to protect people is justified. The first reason that the statement “Sometimes lies need to be told in order to protect people” is it just an excuse. There is a point or an example that fully shows that is just an excuse is the “funeral” of Great Aunt Birte who didn’t exist.
Social lies are most known as white lies, not that severe but they are still lies. Peace-keeping lies are those that are “designed to avoid irritation or argument” (Viorst 137). Protective lies are those that parents tend to tell due to the fact that “they’re convinced that the truth would be too damaging” (138). This type of lie my parents tend to use way too much to not let me know what is going on financially in the family. The fourth category of lies is trust-keeping lies, which are those that involve three people.
Knowing that humor was lost on him and metaphor seem unnecessary I was surprised that he was accepting of the concept of white lies. I actually have always thought of white lies as simply lies, never having any truth to them, but he saw them as an opportunity to tell
For example, there was a mini-bus crash where 12 children and a teacher were killed, and an atheist would say the mini-bus and lorry were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that it certainly did not have anything to do with God. Some Christians would say that God gave humans free will, and with this, humans can commit evil things. God did not just make us all good and without free will, because without it God would be forcing goodness on us, which would mean we would not be truly good people and it would be a fake goodness. Other Christians say that God permits evil because it is his way of testing our faith for him. An example of this is in the bible, when Abrahams’ faith is tested by God when God tells him to sacrifice his son.
Politics, Religion and Media are true forms of deception. Deception is differed from individual to individual, for some people deception has different theories and different measures, like in a relationship when one partner is cheating on other for one person it might prove to be a deception but for other one this is just might not wrong. Well we face so many emotional deceptions during our lifetime, which has no material value and cannot be framed as artful deceptive in nature. Deception has different measure and different levels based on individual. The deception or forge or fraud stories which we know are meant to be known for us, the people who did it they want us to know about their artful intelligence worldwide.
Prejudging Can Lead To A Disaster In the movie Hitch, Alex Hitchens (Will Smith) makes a statement, "She may not want the whole truth, but she wants the real you, she may not want to see it all at once" (Mordaunt, 2005). Although there may be some truth to this statement, the real truth is never to mislead a person's emotions. This belief that he has, lead him to be in a conflicting situation to where his self-disclosure was prejudged by his actions without creditable evidence of the truth. Because of his non-verbal actions Sarah's feeling were hurt, the truth was misconstrued and the whole situation was blown out of proportion. The speed dating scene exhibited a few concepts of conflict regarding interpersonal communication.
Why We Lie There are many reasons why people lie. Some have ulterior motives while others plainly lie with the sole intention of deceiving someone. In Ericson’s essay “ The Ways We Lie” she lists several examples of the different kinds of ways people lie, like innocent white lies. She also explains the different ways people deceive, such as ignoring the plain facts and leaving out major points to the story. When I read “ The Ways We Lie” it made me think of all the lies I produce without even thinking twice about the effects my lies have on people.