"To thine own self be true." (Shakespeare) Unfortunately we are not true to ourselves. We all lie for many reasons which can be for fear of harm‚ fear of conflict‚ fear of rejection‚ fear of punishment‚ fear of loss or altruistic reasons such as helping our loved ones to make them feel better‚ which is the only selfless reason why we lie. It all comes down to the one fundamental reason as to why we lie and it is because it mostly works. Just like lying to someone makes them lose their trust for
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First of all‚ a good occasion to lie is when you do not want to hurt other people’s feeling. If you know that the true is going to hurt someone‚ it is better to lie. For example‚ when I do not like my friend’s new hairstyle I just tell her that it looks nice even if I do not like it. When you do not want to be disrespectful with someone about an opinion you just try to agree with the other person even if you do not agree. To specific‚ if you think that an older person opinion is old-fashioned you
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People are not being honest with others‚ or with their self. In other words; they are lying. I am writing this paper to discuss the causes and effects on lying. Why do people lie? We all have our own reasons for not telling the truth at times. These are the main reasons why people lie: 1. Enhancing their reputation: People lie to make themselves seem better. They may want to impress their friend or their boyfriend/ girlfriend‚ but they are lying nonetheless. People may be exaggerating or lying about
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minutes another lie that is said. Or can benefit everyone‚ or it may be for the worse. Lying is easily influenced by adolescents‚ such as children‚ parents have always taught their children that lying is a horrible habit and should be discouraged‚ as children grow‚ they learn the world around them‚ and can not avoid start lying‚ so lying is a bad habit because they are witnesses of the lies that are coming out of the mouth of all. There are two main types of lies‚ is the occasional white lie that does
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including ourselves. Moreover‚ we also have educated that it is better to accept the consequences of my actions than to lie. However‚ the more we grow up‚ the more we know about using of lying because telling the truth cannot always solve the problem. From my point of view‚ some lying is acceptable‚ some is not. It depends upon what purposes that make people tell lies. A white lie is allegedly one which is done for someone’s good and which harms no one. There’s no such thing. The philosophical view
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sometimes lie about being sick to get a day off of work.I firmly believe that lying is undetectable in our society. lying is never allowed because it makes a person less of a human bean.We can’t always pick honesty without compromising some other value that might be as important says Depaula.Maybe you have never told a lie and a person needs your help you might have to lie to help the person and that makes you less of a human bean.People have this idea that lying is not ok maby u may have to lie to help
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Why Men Lie (and always will) by Vince Passaro Before I pulled my Roberto Duran‚ before I moved out‚ before I lost the ability to go forward in what had been a long and rich and difficult and painful and profoundly rewarding marriage with three great children—before I lost the strength and desire‚ to put the matter more precisely‚ to try to be the person I was supposed to be and hide the one I’d become‚ I asked my wife: “Why do men lie so much?” I can see now that the long pondering I’d been doing
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convinced Loretta Ragsdell’s writing style is very sarcastic and observant in which she explains why and when teenagers of this era‚ lie. In the first place‚ her writing is very sarcastic. This can be conveyed in the quotes from paragraph one and six‚ that states that‚ "Finally‚ the answer has arrived to the age-old question and unsettling mystery of why teenagers lie" and "Also‚ many teens have excellent adult role model in their lives who have mastered the art of lying." Clearly‚ she is being very
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People tell lies everyday‚whether it is a simple white lire or a more complex lie. In article "the way we lie" written by Stephanie Ericsson she explains the different forms of lying‚ and how life is harder when we don’t lie to authority figures‚ people we love.In the short story " shooting an elephant" the narrator is guilty of lying to the Native people in the village he is in. The narrator puts up a facade that he is like any other white man and can kill anything. A facade is an illusion‚ we
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Christopher Behrens The Nobility of a Lie Frederick Nietzsche once wrote that the “untruth‚ [or lie]‚ is a condition of life.”At least in terms of creating a stable society‚ Socrates would seem to agree. In The Republic‚ Socrates points out that civilization is most prone to instability when founded on what he calls a“noble lie.”The lie which‚ despite its falsehood‚ serves for the good of society. His noble lie can be broken into two parts: a justification on why the lie applies to all of a society’s members
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