Immanuel Kant And Brad Blanton: Honestly, Tell The Truth

Secondly, lying can be used to keep a friend. If something happens because of a problem that came from someone, and their friend

As Jean-Paul Sartre once stated, “The worst thing about being lied to is knowing you’re not worth the truth.” This pertains to several types of relationships including friendships, professional relationships, and romantic relationships. Relationships are built on a foundation of trust. Without honesty and faithfulness, there is no basis for a relationship. Anyone would choose to be with someone who is honest and trustworthy over someone who goes behind your back and is constantly lying. The truth is of utmost importance and allows healthy relationships to flourish and unhealthy relationships to be weeded out, quickly. Relationships are a key part of life and understanding the role that the truth plays in all relationships will allow a person to develop strong and beneficial relationships over the course of their life. By realizing the high value truth holds, it will prevent unnecessary heartache, defective business decisions, and wasted time. Telling someone the truth, even when it is

Honesty is the best policy; a phrase that’s been around nearly as long as lies themselves. The book; The Canterbury Tales by Geofferey Chaucer displays how the dishonesty of society is timeless. This is first displayed in “The General Prologue” through the descriptions of the pilgrims. This is also shown in “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale”. Chaucer also conveys that truth is preferable to lies by explaining what terrible punishments befell those who did lie. While those who lied did succeed and profit from their lies; eventually the lies caught up to them and they end up paying a price greater than what they earned.

There tends to be a negative stigma attached with lying; therefore, people are inclined to be honest simply to maintain a positive image of themself. There are a number of ways to look at this. First, people have a natural desire to see themselves in a positive light and like to feel that they are doing what is right. Much of this plays into the previously discussed individual set of morals that people have and doing what they consider ‘morally right’. However, there are cases when people create excuses to justify to themselves that acting dishonestly is the right thing to do. For example, if a man lies by telling his pregnant wife that she doesn’t look overweight, he will justify this lie to himself by claiming that he doesn’t want to hurt her feelings, maintaining a positive image of himself. In addition, people will tend to lie less to avoid making a bad impression to others. Similarly to above, people may use excuses to justify acting dishonestly, simply to maintain their positive impression on others. This shows that in order to maintain a positive impression of oneself on oneself as well as on others, people are inclined to behave honestly and are willing to make excuses to justify acting dishonestly to maintain this impression. This suggests that due to the natural desire to create and maintain a positive impression, people are inherently honest.

At one point in their life, everyone has been lied to. Everyone has experienced the feelings of betrayal and vulnerability brought about by having their trust in someone broken. Lying, any reasonable person would agree, is wrong. Famous philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that, in fact, we as humans have a perfect duty to never lie in any situation. While on its surface a theory that is easy to agree with, many challenged Kant’s firm stance by challenging it with theoretical situations in which lying might be the only right thing to do. Kant’s Principle of Humanity falls short by not recognize the possibility of a situation wherein the harm caused by one person’s use as a means outweighs that of another and is therefore an insufficient moral theory.

For example, if I wanted to present to get something I wanted, I would be prepared to make it so that all always lied to get what they wanted - but if this would happen to any one would ever have faith in you, so lie would not work and you would not get what you want. So if you wanted to make such a maxim (lie) should become a public law, then would frustrate your goal - then it is not permitted to lie, in accordance with the categorical imperative. It is illegal because the only way to lie is to make an exception for you.

Some people namely being Immanuel Kant, an 18th century German philosopher. He states, according to Article 2, that lies individually harms mankind by weakening the source of law and utterly destroying the dignity of the liar. Almost everyone’s dignity is nonexistent, I suppose. He’s essentially saying that he’d let people like Anne Frank die because of his dogmatic position.Does he truly care about the wellbeing of others? His repudiation of any other opinion is, frankly, arrant nonsense. Another person being Brad Blanton, who believes in being radically honest, being honest all the time, excusing life and death situations. In his interview in Article 3, he says that “lying is stressful and hurts relationships”. This is true, hiding things when unnecessary will just prevent you from deepening your relationship, but he doesn’t consider situations where not lying would hurt the relationship. This all leads us to our

it can also be used to protect others . like when your friend does something and you lie so you don’t get into trouble . what if there is a man that has a weapon and he asked you where is the person he is looking for and you know he is hiding behind the tree do you A tell him he is behind the tree or B tell him he ran to the other side of the street . want time to think about it...well you don't need time because this question is a no brainer . if your against lying but chose B as your answer what does that mean ? it means your a lier... or am i wrong...well i shouldn't be right? Here is another reason why lying is ok let’s just say someone in your family is really sick (lord forbid ) and you don't want anyone to know so you lie and say everything is fine . what would you do A tell them and maybe one gets a heart attack or B tell no one and maybe she comes out ok . want time to think... you shouldn’t need it because the answer is of course B...right or do you have no heart and tell them? We can all agree that lying is ok . you can't say that lying is wrong because face it you done it...you can't say that you never lie because that is a liee but if tell the truth does that mean you have no friends . The reason i said this is because if you told the truth all the time and never lie that must mean you hurt there feelings...right

Lying is sometimes ok when you are protecting someone, it can be your mom your friend or just someone you barely know. But the point is you sometimes have to be a little sly with the truth. My reason to lying is to protect people's feelings and well being. For example when your friend ask if they look dumb in some type of clothing and say no but think it's terrible. Or when you say your babysitter has curfew, like when you're at a dinner party. My source was lies,lies,lies. Also my example is anne frank she was in hiding and the people harboring her when she was in the attic. Anne frank survived as long as she did because they lied to the nazis. My other reason is to shelter people and their feelings. So when your friends say if they are cool and say yes but they lame.

(This is only the case if you say these lies under the right circumstances with the right motives) An example of this is a woman named Teresa Velin, a mother in Palm Desert, California. “Velin did not want to get up and get dressed in the heat to go to a movie date she had planned with her friend so she said she was busy.” (It’s true Americans Conflicted about Lying, Paragraph 6) From this we can tell that lying could actually help us in our everyday lives making us less irritable giving us the precious down time that we all enjoy. It also shows that lies could help us protect people and not hurt their feelings. If Velin would have told her friend the truth she probably would have hurt her feelings and damaged their relationship , but since she lied she was still able to maintain that nice relationship without jeopardizing it in any way whatsoever. This information shows that lying can help everybody out by making you less stressful and protecting the people you love. Some people don’t agree with this. Let’s see what they think about this sensitive

Humanity has been inflicted with the habit of lying. A variety of people are experts at lying, while others aren’t superb liars, which isn’t an issue, on the contrary, it’s preferable to not lie. There are endless reasons to why people lie, and what several fail to notice is the outcome of those lies. Everyone has their own definition of lying. Nevertheless, anyone would say that it’s morally wrong. As time progresses, lying has become an issue. When people lie the repercussions are typically disastrous, and the reasoning to why they lie relies on their prediction of the consequences.

Kant suggests that people should “act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” (AK421). From his perspective, honesty is considered as a perfect duty that everyone should obey, as lying can never be a universal law. However, in my opinion, I think that the duty of honest may not be applicable to every situation. Imagine that one of your family members is fainted, hospitalized, and the doctor tells you he got terminal cancer, will you tell him the diagnostic result truthfully? Instead of telling the truth, most of us would rather choose to lie, because you want them to enjoy the rest of their short lives with happiness. If you lie to them, you can prevent them from being anxious all the time. Since the reason of our white lies is that we want them to be happy, which is stemming from a goodwill. Thus, it is

Most of the people always think that lying is bad. For centuries, philosophers and theologians have characterized lying as unethical (Levine & Schweitzer, 2014). Similarly, ethics scholars have argued that the honesty is a critical component of moral character and it is also a fundamental aspect of the ethical behavior. Some lies are perceived to be more ethical than an honest statement. Prosocial lies are intended to benefit the target and have small or substantial consequences (Levine & Schweitzer, 2014). For example parents may tell prosocial lies about their marriage to protect their children, the government authorities may tell a prosocial lie to the citizens, and hoping to protect them and doctors may tell a prosocial lie about the severity

Lies often overcomplicate situations by causing a person to have to continually tell more lies to cover up the original, when he or she could have just told the truth in the beginning. However, the problem is that the other option is not always so great either. The truth is perfectly honest, and that can cause one to get in trouble. I believe the main reason why we, as humans, lie is to protect ourselves and to protect the things for which we have much affection. Once, I had told a lie to keep myself from getting into more trouble than telling the truth would gotten me. This lie protected from losing what was the most important thing I had at the time, my freedom. This is the story of the time I lied to protect my freedom.

Emmanuel Kant says, “A lie, even if it does not wrong any particular individual, always harms mankind individually. Even worse, it harms the lair himself, by destroying his human dignity and making him more worthless even than a small thing,” (Rejecting All Lies 3) Kant is a German philosopher from the 1800's, life is different now. We are now not based on chivalry, we don’t have a choice to say a truth or lie, if we lived in his world everyone would be hated. But, lying does affect how you are thought of , “ ...every lie has its cost, and that’s just another factor you need to consider. One key cost is credibility: Once a person finds out that you lied, you lose currency in their eyes,” (Americans Conflicted 12) Cohen explains in this quote that lying can annihilate all of the faith people have bestowed in you. On the other hand, certain situations call for such risks. And at times, risk is nothing if the outcome of lying can save a