When Is Lying A Good Research Paper

Lying can be described as the act of telling an untruth, but just when is it ok to lie? In the articles, “It’s the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying,” from Life on NBCNEWS.com, and “Brad Blanton: Honestly, Tell the Truth,” by Barbara Ballinger, it provides evidence that leads me to believe that lying is acceptable when you do it to protect a relationship or someone from a life or death situation.

Basically, lying is not a good thing to do, but it do not always need to be like that. Judging on something that right or wrong should base on that it is benefit anybody or bother anyone or not. Some people know as “White lie” and “Black lie”. We can state that lying would be the right thing, in case that it benefits to somebody and not bothers others at all. But if not, it can be consider as it is wrong.

As a general articulation, there is very little contention that would emerge when one expresses that lying is wrong. However, when proffered theoretical circumstances start to crawl further into different circumstances, people will start to dodge and legitimize why lying would be satisfactory in specific circumstances.

Lying is a bad thing to do, most of the time. But are there cases in which lying is the right thing to do?

`As St. Augustine wrote, "To me, however, it seems certain that every lie is a sin... “(St. Augustine, 421). Later, philosophers like Immanuel Kant (1787) again adopted this uncompromising moral stance when arguing against lying. (Gneezy, 2005, p.384)`

People lie a lot in their lives. Even though they know that it is morally and religiously incorrect, they do it all the time. Mothers lie to their children; children lie to their parents and students to their teachers. It is a huge part of people daily behavior. They do it for many reasons, like lying to gain certain things or lying to avoid responsibilities. For example, when a girl tells her friend she does not looks fat in her new dress but the truth she does, or when a wife tells her husband that she likes his new haircut, and the reality she does not. Also, people lie serious lies in more complicated situation; for example a witness lies about what he saw in the crime scene. Lying is usually telling a false statement with the intention that another person will believe what you have said is true (Mahon, 2008).

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.

When I was a younger boy, I thought lying was only what the bad kids did. I thought that if I lied, it was an act of law-breaking. However, I soon learned that to lie was no grave crime, for there was no law or official rule stating anything of the like. Lest I be in some sort of judicial situation, I was not held to be honest at all times; however, to be honest was, if anything, a moral and generally more helpful thing to do in most circumstances.

First lying can protect lives as well as protect in dangerous situations, for example in the article honestly tell the truth by BARBARA BALLINGER blanton states that “we shouldn’t manipulate the truth except for rare times.” what i mean by this is that blanton states that a life is more important than the truth. Harold smith lied to his daughter about undergoing a kidney tumor because it slowed down the

Isabella lopez 8/15 core 2 when is lying okay? Lies are told everyday but its hard to tell exactly when lying is ok? For example in the excerpt “rejecting all lies” written by immanuel kant, kant believes lying is never ok and no one should ever lie and “ truthfulness is a duty which no circumstances can put aside.” Equally important in the excerpt “Brad Blanton: honestly, Tell the Truth” by Barbara Ballinger,Brad Blanton expresses his opinion on lying and how we believes it is almost never ok.

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.

Most people lie because they don’t want to hurt others’ feelings, or they do it to save someone’s life. Lying is not a terrible thing to do, but it mostly relies on how you use it. In some instances, you may use it to protect someone from danger, specifically your friends or even your family. In other instances, some people use it to protect themselves. For example, if someone asks you for lunch

Sissela Bok argues that it’s a person's formal duty of everyone to tell the truth, even if it has good intentions or harms you in the process by incorporating Immanuel Kant's ideas about lying. He has an absolutist position that prohibits all lies. However, their assertions are very nonsensical and don't fit the facts. These radical honesty philosophers underestimate the power of how lying is very beneficial. Contrary to what Bok argued through Kant, the art of lying is able to get you out of challenging situations and protect a multitude of things. For example, a mother of Quincy, Illinois believes that telling her son, "the truth would have been better, though more time-consuming, as discipline often is"(NBCNews.com, 5). This mother was in a difficult situation for herself and lied to protect her son because she knows how too much T.V. is bad for a growing child. Even though, she could have been honest with her son, it was less time-consuming to lie and she wanted to protect him. Without lying, a plethora of things would just deteriorate. It's clear to say that lying is an indispensable tool. It would be pleasant to live in a harmonious utopia where we don’t have to falsify information, but the truth is that it's not as rudimentary as that and can't be that

Personally lies are sometimes helpful and should be used, whereas other times lies are harmful and should not be used in this situation. Experts like Immanuel Kant believes all lies are justified since there not that harmful. To me lying is sometimes justified, because lies aren't always needed and it isn't always good to lie.

It is the same in the science world. Let’s say that there is a scientific study being conducted about how consuming a large amount of pop tarts could lead to Cancer. If you are the leader of this study, you would assume that the results your peers give you are 100% true. Falsifying information/ results for something as important as this study could lead to horrendous problems. It is very wrong to lie about information, especially if it puts a person’s life at risk. But, there are some cases where lying could help in a situation, or protect someone.