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    is accepting lying a lot more than we should, and we are practically letting people lie to us without doing anything to stop them. We tend to just ignore the lying, and let it happen, since we do not let it affect us, but we still let it happen. Lying is used on a daily basis in our world, be it by you, your friends, your family, or some company that you have never heard of before. No progress in anything would ever be made in the world, since everyone thinks that everyone is lying. If everyone in

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    Lies In The Crucible

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    60% of adults cannot have a ten minute conversation without lying at least once. For most people, no matter if they are morally good or bad, lying is an easy, and maybe seemingly harmless, thing to do. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, lying is a main theme throughout the play. As characters are faced with life or death circumstances, morally good people have to either lie to save themselves and others, or face the unjust consequences. Lying is generally seen throughout society as immoral, however,

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    the definition of Lying are Everything’s an argument-The Reprehensibility of White Lie by Jennifer Pier Pg. 206-209, National Geographic “Why We Lie by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee and Jason Silva on Lying – Brain Games. Lying is a word that has many different definitions that also vary from person to person just like the definition I found on different dictionary. Everything’s an argument, National Geographic “Why We Lie, and Jason Silva will help he understand the concept of lying and the purpose of

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    presidential indiscretions and published in a magazine centered on cultural trends, the piece delineates lying into specific categories and describes each one’s prevalence. Ericsson makes use of a matter-of-fact and forthright tone which contributes to credibility and reflects her confidence in discussing such morally grey topics. Throughout the piece, she explicates the implications of lying by making use of personal anecdotes, supporting quotes, and rhetorical questions. Ericsson begins her piece

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    Nonmoral Sense”, one of many things that Friedrich Nietzsche argues is that humans do not really hate lying, but they do hate the bad consequences that come with lying. He states, “What they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences” (453). Nietzsche explains that lying is useful and we as humans all make use this tool. We seem to ignore the fact that we are lying when it benefits us, although we do not accept the use of this tool when it has a bad effect on

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    In the realistic fiction story, “Charles” by Shirley Jackson, the problem of lying takes place at home. The main character Laurie, lies to his parents about what he did at school. By using a first person view with sentence structure, Shirley Jackson creates the lesson by using the problem, Laurie lying to his parents, which shows that it can pile up with consequences in the end. Lying can lead to rough endings at most times. In the short story there is many incidences that lead up to the consequence

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    imperative are explained with Kant’s conceptive on lying. His argument about lying is back with universal law. There’s conflict among Kant’s argument, there might be situation where lying might be necessary. Kant believe in responsibility of telling the truth but not the lie. In summary, in this chapter, Rachels uses

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    Cheating, lying and breaking promises is what we Americans are used to hearing and seeing from what we see on the TV or hear on the news. How can we have an honest workflow, when big companies are stealing from others and lying just to make more money without anyone knowing? How can we trust in the government, when they lie about many things from us and feel the need to keep secrets from us? From my viewpoint, I believe that we live in a world where cheating, and lying is normal because everything

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    charles is not real. When she says to a teacher you must have your hands full with that Charles kid,and the teacher says we don't have a kid named Charles the mom looks stupid. By the use of plot and sentence structure it shows that lying may hurt more than one person. Lying is shown as the central issue throughout the story impacting the characters.

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    in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet thought that telling lies were acceptable. In this essay, I will be talking about how telling lies instead of the truth is not acceptable. I feel that telling lies is not acceptable for the following reasons. Lying is not the right thing to do in a bad situation. If someone is talking behind your back, you would want someone to tell you what they are saying. If that person lies to you, you think of a different perspective then of what the situation actually is

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