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Identify The Different Types Of Lie In Research

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In telling someone the truth, one must ask oneself, Is telling the truth going to be beneficial or constructive to the person you’re telling? People often say that they always want to know the truth, but there are specific situations where not knowing the truth may be better than knowing it. There are different types of lies that you can tell. One type of lie is a protective lie--one that insulates the recipient from harm. Whether it is lessening the severity of a situation or protecting someone from falling into complete panic, sometimes lying can be beneficial to you or somebody else. A personal example of this type of lie, and when I was glad I did not know the truth, occurred this year in one of my academic classes. One of my teachers bamboozled the class by telling us that an assigned worksheet was just for practice and not a quiz. Thinking that this assignment was only for practice, the class remained calm and no one felt that familiar thirty seconds of panic when quizzes are given. Personally this helped me because I get stressed out while taking a graded assignment, as it affects my brain and clogs my thinking. This protective lie helped me to do better on …show more content…

By leaving out important information, a person may believe they are telling the truth, just not the whole truth. However, by not providing all the information, and omitting important details, it can be viewed as the same act of lying. A common example of a lie by omission is when you and one of your friends have plans to go to the movies and then another friend asks you if you can hang out. You want to go to the movies but you don’t want your other friend to feel left out. You might say that you need to go home after school, but not disclose that you plan on going to the movies with the other friend. You have told the truth that you will eventually go home after school, but you have omitted the fact that you will be going to the movies

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