White lie

People lie for the good and bad all the time, I mean we’ve all had to at one point in our lives. It’s not a bad thing to do, you can lie to protect people’s feeling or from harm, but it's not good to lie when you’re protecting yourself for selfish reasons. There really all kinds of situations to lie about it just depends on what you are lying for. As if you are lying in a situation when you’re to protect others or yourself from a dangerous situation,but when you’re lying for selfish reason or when

“We lie. We all do. We exaggerate, we minimize, we avoid confrontation, we spare people's feelings, we conveniently forget, we keep secrets, we justify lying to the big-guy institutions. Like most people, I indulge in small falsehoods and still think of myself as an honest person. Sure i lie, but it doesn't hurt anything. Or does it?”(Ericsson 472) This is how Stephanie Ericsson starts her paper “The Ways We Lie” in the anthology of Patterns for college writing. As many would guess this paper is

It is very true that we lie. We lie everyday conscious or unconsciously, anywhere and to anyone. It has become a way of life to many people, when one lies it feels completely normal, actually they don’t feel anything at all. One can be couth lying in any place like work, home and to different person’s friends, family, clients, teachers and even authority. In the preface of the story the author had describe how in a day she had lied a minimum of four times to various people. In spite of this the authors

hijack any interaction. From a young age, introductions to the ethics of lying are conducted. Arguments as ancient as ancient as Greek philosophers often arise on whether lying in general is right or wrong – more specifically lying to children. A little lie here, a small one there, drizzle a bit of Santa Claus into the mix, and one ends up with the bad recipe for incredulity and mistrust. It’s that mistrust and damage to credulity that is a snowball that continuously rolls down the hill, getting bigger

These lies are considered white lies or kind lies. A white lie is a cautious, wrong statement which is meant to do no harm or is intended to produce an encouraging result. Adair Lara’s Couple lie shows readers white lies in marriage. She states “This is marital lying. It’s not a white lie, meant to spare your feelings. It’s a pink lie, a couple lie.” In her opinion white lies and couple lies are different, couple lies are acceptable. The author and many people see white lies and couple lies as a

Uses of Honesty In literature, it is hard to have a character that is completely truthful; there is usually at least one scenario where the protagonist would be required to tell a lie to get out of a situation. Even in real life, the average person is guaranteed to tell at least a few lies in their lifetime. In the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, the protagonist is a teenage boy by the name of Christopher. He suffers from a type of autism, and this is

What are lies? A lie is defined as follows: To make a statement that one knows to be false, especially with the intent to deceive. There are several ways that lies are told for instance, there are white lies, lies of omission, bold faced lies, and lies of exaggeration. No matter what type of lie that one chooses to tell many people believe that lies do more harm than good. White lies are defined as diplomatic or well-intentioned deception. There are many different types of white lies that are told

In the essays “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson, and “The World of Doublespeak” by William Lutz, there are two different angles on lying. They both have a different outlook on lying, Ericsson believes that it is just a part of our language, and that these lies are not deliberate. Lutz believes that it is more deliberate, and intentional. Both Ericsson and Lutz use anecdotes and stories as examples of lies, while describing different kinds of lies. The author’s purpose in both of these essays

In Stephanie Ericsson’s “The Way We Lie,” Ericsson categorizes the various types of lies and their ramifications, whereas in Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog,” the writing touches on the selfish lies that both Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna tell to sustain their adulterous relationship. Although the extent to which lying is selfish depends on the motives and circumstances for the lie, and whose interest it benefits, I claim that not only are most lies selfish, but they are also morally wrong

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. Lying is defined as misleading someone deliberately. The philosopher Kant believed that lying