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
Deception occurs when information is knowingly and intentionally for the purpose of creating a false belief in the receiver (Floyd, 2016 p.375). Depending on an individual’s upbringing lying can have someone felling guilt and nervousness. Lies allow us to be afraid of the truth while we try to find an escape from the problem. Growing up I can recall how worried I felt when I told a lie, that fear of being caught and the consequences that might come from someone finding out. Now as I grow old my feelings are still in the same place, however, I my learning through my experiences that lying doesn't just deceive the receiver but I can deceive myself. I feel regret when I tell a lie no matter the reason or circumstances it can never be rationalized, I’m still creating a false reality.
Everyone has come to a crossroad at some point in their life where they have to either face a harsh reality or hide behind a beautiful lie. At first glance the lie always looks great, and will usually make the situation better, at least in the moment. However, we end up looking back on all of the times we lied and got in trouble for it: the beatings we have taken for telling a lie, the times we have gotten our phone taken away, and most of all the friends we have lost for having the truth come out later. But maybe all of those people were wrong, ironically they stopped us from believing the truth about the truth for all those years. The truth does not matter because sometimes you never really know what is the truth, people believe what the want, and often times telling the truth is boring.
“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort” Katherine Dunn perfectly describes what attracts us to lies from a quote in her book Geek Love. Most people lie to help themselves make it through day to day life. If people lie all the time, can all that lying really have an immense effect? Delays for telling the truth is not always a bad thing.While some lies are more helpful to some people more than others. Lies can make people seem untrustworthy, although lies help protect innocence, maintain self-esteem, and prevent harm from yourself or others.
Sometimes, people tend to hide truth just to spare someone’s feelings and they think of it as small, good lies. But the point is that lies never bring anything good. No matter how small lies are, they might even hurt people’s feelings more than telling the truth right away.
There are negative effects to always being honest. Telling someone the truth could cause more harm than good. Hiding the truth could keep someone safe. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Heck Tate lies about how Bob Ewell dies to protect Boo Radley. Heck and Atticus both know that telling everyone Boo killed Bob would bring him out into the center of attention which Boo cannot handle. Being
The majority of us lie as which is known already, but one peculiar fact is that it only took 10 minutes for somebody to tell a lie. Furthermore, that was the result of a survey which showed that 60% of adults who were surveyed confessed that within the first 10 minutes of conversing with someone, they already had told a lie to them. Although, people rejected the idea of lying, they still lied. In addition, people didn’t lie to cause harm, they actually did it to make it seem like they are interesting. Nevertheless, when we try to protect others or try to get out of trouble we tend to lie. We know it’s wrong, we’ve been taught that our whole life, and somehow we still do it. Although I disagree with the idea of lying and believe we should be honest more than dishonest, I still do it time to time. I didn’t want to lie, but
In Element 2, I will contend that people for whatever reason choose to lie about things in order to persuade others into thinking that the truth is on their side. Lying takes a group of actions or words that are clearly false to the perpetrator to try to bait someone into thinking that it is truthful. When deceptions are thought to be lies, it can be a very eerie situation because the person that was lied to did not get complete or enough adequate information of what was told. Yes, what someone said may have been truthful, but not all of the information was being told. The person receiving the information is left without additional pieces to the story although he or she does not know this, which makes the person assume that what you said was the end all be all to the situation. These situations can likely equate to being a lie because of the information that was omitted. Once the person finds out that pieces of information was left out or incomplete, they will feel like they were lied to. Because the rest of the information or story was not fulfilled, the person can also be
In most cases, people don’t intend to lie. Sometimes our memory becomes defective and we may remember events a bit differently than how they
Getting told a lie is a very unpleasant feeling for some while for others. They have a stronger mentality and can withstand being told a lie. Personally in my opinion, being told a lie makes one feel as if they can’t trust the person anymore due to the fact that they are hiding something. For the person receiving the lie it is much more
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the traditional definition of lying is “to make a believed-false statement to another person with the intention that the other person believe that statement to be true” (Mahon). In other words, a big part of lying in the above definition is intent. While a person may have good intentions when they give out the truth all at once, that route may sometimes be harmful for the person being told. Truth given out in small doses is still the truth and learning the truth in small doses is better than never learning the truth at all.
Protective lies are commonly used by someone who intentionally does not tell the truth because they believe it will benefit the person. "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." (Truth About Deception) The person telling the lie truly believes it will help the person emotionally or physically if they do not know the whole truth.
Under what circumstances is lying acceptable? How does one know when to stop lying or when a lie has gone too far? These questions are a few of the many our society has pondered over this controversial topic. Lying is sometimes justified when one's lies are told to protect others, to protect one’s self from harm, and although some may argue that lying is never justified because it unnecessarily complicates one’s life and weakens the population as a whole, the liar must know, under certain circumstances, when lying is appropriate and how to keep it under control. First, lying is sometimes justified when they are told to protect others.
For my research project I had initially started with looking at deception and reasoning behind lying using
There are different kinds of lies, as well as different degrees of lying. Lying is saying something with the intent of creating a false belief and impression to the other. It's an attempt to get someone to believe something that is true. Sometimes a lie might seem unintentional, or it may have been told to save someone else's feelings. We deceive other people because we think it serves our purposes in some way. When you get away with a lie it often drives you to continue your deceptions, and in the process, we ruin relationships, hurt others, and lose our
Getting told a lie is a very unpleasant feeling for some while for others. They have a stronger mentality and can withstand being told a lie. Personally in my opinion, being told a lie makes one feel as if they can’t trust the person anymore due to the fact that they