When Is Lying Justified

Lying is only okay sometimes. Sometimes telling a small lie is better than hurting someone. However, if lying becomes a habit, the people around you might start to mistrust you. You should think about the consequences before lying, the outcome will be different if the truth is told. This is why lying is only okay sometimes.

Deception is never justified because it is not morally right. It is basically lying to mislead someone. Even if the lie is told to benefit the other person, it is still not right. Lies can be covered up, but sooner than later, they will appear on the surface. Some common forms of deception are falsification, exaggeration, and omission. Many lies are told for several different reasons, but they all have consequences. Some frequent consequences include hurting a loved one’s feelings, losing the trust of others, and causing others to suffer.

William Shakespeare once said, “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” Lying is without a doubt never justifiable because lying can lead into even greater conflicts that might never be resolved additionally lying would ruin someone’s reputation; one might argue that lying can be justifiable under one circumstance which is that lying can protect people from danger; however, lying can make someone lose people’s trust.

The majority of people think lying is inherently wrong, and it is only justified in cases of significant benefit. Fear, manipulation and pride are the three main reasons people choose to lie. Some of the harsher lies are

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.

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.

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.

Is it always morally wrong to lie? Yes, I strongly agree, others might disagree; moreover, this can depend on one’s own morals.

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

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.

In the expert it says, “Even worse, it harms the liar himself, by destroying his human dignity and making him more worthless even than a small thing. Even though lying can protect someone from serious harm, it could also damage someone's dignity. Lying could also affect the way people look at you. It also says, “Kant defines a lie as “an intentional untruthful declaration to another person”and dismisses the idea that we owe the duty of speaking the truth only to those who have a right to the truth.” Lying may also affect the way people look at

My viewpoint follows the principle of deontology. There is no excuse for lying. “Lying is a hurtful act of disrespect and thus should not be done” (Mosser, 2011, Ch. 5, p. 15). Once again, this belief is due to religious beliefs that lying is wrong. The utilitarian viewpoint of lying is acceptable if it benefits the greatest good for the greatest number of people is a weak argument. What about those people that do not benefit? Do they not matter? I believe that everyone can contribute. Thomas Plante, Ph. D. a professor with Santa Clara University has this to say on the subject, “When it comes to making ethical decisions we need to balance the pros and cons of using multiple approaches to ethics in order to figure out what the right thing to do really is. Sometimes different ethical approaches conflict. When they do, certain values or approaches must trump others. So, compassion might trump honesty on occasion” (Plante, 2011). While this viewpoint is utilitarian, there are many valid points. However, I always believe that honesty is the best policy to save any future repercussions such as a lost friendship, or a legal dispute. I also believe there are ways to get around lying to keep someone’s feelings from being hurt. Using such phrases as “it’s in God’s hands, we’ll see, and simply “I can’t tell you” are good ways to avoid the question, or to answer without 100%

While lying can be ,at times, socially acceptable, there are dangers to lying that must be weighed, but most lies are not okay.

In reality, almost everyone tells lies, basically to benefit one’s own interests. However, in trying so hard to convince others,

Most people have all lied at some point for whatever reason it may have been. Lying while an easy way to find a way out of trouble or save someone’s feelings should only be used in certain situations. The question has to be asked, Is lying ever justified? Lying causes loss of trust, double standards, and should only be used by the military.