Should We Tell The Truth Or Lie And Disobey The Ten Commandments?

Where do we as a society, get the idea that lying is bad? In one aspect this perception that lying is bad roots from the fact that lying can breed distrust. It can breed distrust in relationships, it can be what leads a people to distrust their government; from distrust, comes disorder and all forms of chaos that follows. Due to the fact we are a predominantly Christian nation, I also believe a healthy amount of this perceptions is rooted in the Biblical exhortation “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” This, being the ninth commandment given to Moses by God, is commonly interpreted as “don’t lie.” However, reducing God’s ninth commandment down to something as rudimentary as “don’t lie” distorted its true meaning. It’s more than a mere an instruction not to lie, it is an instruction against the creation of false narratives specifically with the intent to accuse or cause some form detriment towards others. Lying itself is not evil; it is the reason behind one’s lie that determines its morality. However, as a society we are afraid to accept this because then how would it be restrained?

If my lie can safe person life I will lie, because for me person life more important than the rule "never lie". In our life, we have situations when we can’t tell the truth and we need to lie. Without a lie, our life would be harder and worse. I divide lie on a bad lie and on a good lie. Parents lie children about Santa because the idea about Santa can even help some kids stay on their best behavior. For example, my sister-in-law tells her daughter (if you behave badly Santa does not come to you), and her daughter’s behavior changes for the better. The idea about Santa helps to educate children, develop their imagination and develop creative minds. This lie is kind and it does not harm

Many people tell lies on a daily basis and many others don’t. It just depends on who you are and what your morals are. There are three ways you

One of the Ten Commandments is Thou Shalt Not Lie. A man in church said he lies when his wife asks if she looks fat in this dress. The Bible says in the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 19, Verse 22, “A poor man is better than a liar. It must be pretty important not to lie if not

I do not condone lying in certain aspects because it is always going to backfire on you. but in some arguable circumstances you have to because you do not want to hurt the person that's why you have to lie to them. then it creates a bigger more deep lie that you have to cover up by other lies. Lying is a part of our daily lives we witness it we hear it and we discuss with each other of why do we lie? well we lie because it's the easiest thing to do we can not grip the truth and the reality of ourselves. If you're going to lie it needs to be a legitimate reason of why you're doing it because a lie can be a serious ordeal to that person. For instance i could lie to my mom (never say i would) about being somewhere that i really shouldn't be

For centuries, Christians have been debating if it is ever right to lie. Their arguments all deal with a Christian’s interpretation of what the Bible has to say about the issue. The ninth commandment asserts “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (ESV Ex. 20.17). This seems fairly straight-forward: a person should never lie. However, the Bible also tells stories of men and women, who are considered people of faith, who have lied. The debate emerges when the question is asked, “In these instances, were these people right to lie?” I believe that it is never permissible to lie except when someone doesn't deserve the truth or doesn't expect the truth.

Most of the time when we lie, we don’t really think much of it. The problem is that no one takes the time to see what the outcome will be. If we do, it’ll mostly be looking to see a positive outcome for ourselves. For Example, if you had a friend that was really eager to share

The primary categorical imperative that her telling a lie would violate would be the Formula of Universal Law. According the this imperative, we must “never to act on a maxim that we could not at the same time will to be a universal law” (Korsgaard 328). As our society generally believes lying to be wrong, lying violates the Formula of Universal Law because it is a maxim that is not a universal law. It cannot be said that lying is okay in every situation and could be applied universally, therefore we must conclude, according to Kant, that lying is in violation of the Formula of Universal Law. There are, of course, exceptions to this imperative. According to Christine Korsgaard, one can lie to those who intend to deceive us

Everyone has told some sort of lie in their life. A person's lies can range from small white lies such as, “your haircut looks amazing”. Some people tell bigger lies such as “no, I did not commit tax evasion”. I believe it is morally permissible to lie, because people who always tell the truth can cause lots of ill-will. Then in cases the truth will end up causing more pain, a lie is the morally correct.

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

Hi MacKenzie, I can see why you believe there are certain times you find it is better to lie. As a rule though lying I think is a bad idea. I agree that lying can lead to more harm than happiness if done for selfish reasons. Hinman stated that respect is to act a certain way toward someone or refrain from acting in a particular way” (Hinman, pg. 176). In respect to your example the person was treating the Jewish families with respect by hiding them while refraining from turning them over to the Nazi which would have been very disrespectful and caused them harm.

I do agree that lying is wrong, but is permissible at times. The utilitarian theory would suggest that lying would be permissible as long as it gave the greatest number of people pleasure and only hindered the minority. With children I feel that this is especially true because their fragile minds may not be able to comprehend the truth. Furthermore, telling the truth to your children may not be beneficial to either you or the child. However, I do try to tell my children the truth on most things, but feel that some things are best kept covered up. Do you feel that lying to your child assists them in taking in the world as a better place? When I was deployed I did not lie to my children when they asked me “daddy will you going to die at war.”

Some people think that it is never, under any conditon, okay to lie while others think that it's fine to sometimes slip a white lie into a sentence to protect the feelings of their loved ones. In my opnion, we need to lie here and there to take care of other's emotions. Firstly, people tell lies when they don't want to neglect others kindness or thoughtfulness. For example, if a friend gives you a present that doesn't fit your stlye, you will still thank them for it and compliment the item. Secondly, people can lie to prove their abilities to someone. For instance, if you were to get an interview for a job, you'll try to be acknowledged by your employer. Also, you might say a list of not harmful things when trying to sell a product to a customer

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

I also agree that we should think before we act. First, we tell lies to avoid hurting the feelings of someone. Words are very powerful so when we are friends with someone and we know that they are hurting we usually tell white lies to make them feel better. In addition, we tell lies to protect their own feelings. If we know that a lie can make a person happy then go for it even though it is bad because we love them and we will do everything for them. Second, we tell lies to avoid getting into trouble. An example is we prevent physical and mental harm. A situation that is proper to this is when we are in danger; obviously we need to tell numerous lies to protect ourselves from getting hurt. Third, we tell lies to avoid losing someone. We tend to lie because the truth might ruin our relationship with the person even though we know that when we lie to someone, we already ruin the relationship we have with them. Moreover, gaining the trust of a person is very hard; we tend to push them away because some of us have trust issues, so when we finally gained that trust we are afraid to