Is Your Child Lying That's Good By Alex Stone

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

Have you ever wondered why it can be so hard to tell the truth, or why it seems better to tell a lie? In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Rob Marshall’s Chicago, characters lie because they feel that it is easier. However, lying leads to a downward- spiral. The society we live in can either lead us to a complicated relationship with the truth or easy going. The problem with constantly telling lies is that it starts off with one then leads to another until everything you say is a lie. People know it is easier to tell lies than face the truth because they are either doing it for money, or protection for themselves, people they love, or relationships. Yes, telling lies can help but imagine the damage you’re building up on the way. Nobody likes liars and liars can be found anywhere, even families lie to each other. Relationships are just like thin pieces of paper that make small tears to it every time a lie is told. The paper can be put back together but it will never be the same or be seen the same.

A lie is considered a false statement given to fool someone. At some point throughout the day everyone will stretch the truth. Are lies just really some version of the truth or are they bold and deliberate? Lying is discussed in-depth in "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson and in the article "Is Lying Bad for Us" by Richard Gunderman. The two articles discuss the types of lies, reasons people lie and the consequences suffered by all. It can be determined after reading the texts that lying causes undue stress and telling the truth is beneficial in more ways than one.

Benjamin Franklin’s book, Poor Richard’s Almanac, is full of advice. One of those quotes was “A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”. This is a very wise saying and offers the reader excellent advice about lying.

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

Need a guide to lying? Don't know what to say to get your way? Well then you're in the wrong place reading the wrong paper. Don't understand lying and don't know when to lie? The answer is here! “ All our lives we've been taught to lie.”(Blanton), but is it what we should do? Think of why you've lied before. To spare someone's feelings, or to get out of troubled. We lie for ourselves most of the time, but that occasion comes when you lie for others. Is it ok to lie to do something bad? Is it ok to lie to save someone? What do you think.

For the sake of others or themselves? While some lie to simply protect others, others lie to selfishly protect themselves. Regardless of the good will or selfish intention behind the lie, one will always confront consequences when telling a lie. These consequences have the ability to easily surpass the benefits. “Hurt me with the truth, but never comfort me with a lie.”

According to Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, lying is acceptable in not even one situation you can think of. He specifically states,”Truthfulness in statements which cannot be avoided is the formal duty of an individual to everyone, however great may be the disadvantage” (Bok 1). This is so important because it really elaborates on how religiously one should avoid

Claim Although some may think that telling the truth is always good but in reality, sometimes it’s not good it's not always

First lying can help protect the feelings of others. For example, in the article,” It’s the truth,” by NBC news states that “vein says it was too darn hot for her to get up and get dressed for a movie date… so she told her friend she was busy. Velin was to lazy to get up and get dressed by the heat so she lied to her friend and has told her she was busy to not get her friend mad. Veiln’s reason of lying was to save her friendship over a little white lie. In addition Harold Smith states he has a kidney tumor but didn’t want to tell her daughter who had anxiety. Harold Smith had did a white lit because he had to not worry about his daughter. If Harold would have told his daughter she would have had an anxiety attack. So therefore if you lie to protect others

Lying is also useful and acceptable to prevent any harsh feelings with a friend or family member who is over sensitive and may not be available to handle the truth. For example, if my friend was looking forward to getting her spray tan ,and, then,she finally gets it, and she’s excited to have it, and she asks me how it looks, but she looks like an orange mess, I will just say, “You look great,” instead of ruining her day with the truth. Sometimes, social lies are important to build a friend’s confidence, then to destroy a person’s outlook.

In the short story “Like the Sun”, the main character, Sekhar, decided to tell the entire truth for a whole day. By the end of the story, telling all the truth caused him to get into trouble with his wife and the headmaster. This shows that honesty is not always the best policy because it could hurt someone or make them upset, it could ruin something important, and you could get into trouble.

“Honesty is the best policy.” Many people tend to lie thinking that it will keep you out of trouble, when in reality it just gets you in more trouble when people find out you're lying. I learned the consequences of telling lies the hard way. Lying just creates bigger problems and consequences.

     Many times we are faced with situations where we are compelled to lie. Lying is wrong, but in many cases is less destructive than telling the truth. Take a police officer, for example, who has just apprehended a known criminal. He’s taken away in an ambulance

Do not let the lies control your deeds and actions in a given situation. Instead, allow the truth to prevail. Sure, the truth hurts, but the truth hurts once while the lie hurts forever. I do not like lies that are comforting me or a half-truth. I prefer reality, even if it hurts.