pertains to lying‚ I believe it is morally permissible to lie to someone given a specific situation. The most imperative circumstance in which lying has the potential to make more people happy is when it applied to prevent harm/protecting someone’s life. Lying is the right thing to do in this situation as it safeguards your fellow man. According to Emanuel Kant (2008)‚ “Immediately I realize that I could will •the lie but not •a universal law to lie; for such a law would result in there being no promises
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There are circumstances in which it is better to lie. In life we sometimes avoid the truth in order to prevent people from getting hurt. I do not believe lies should be used only for our convenience because that is wrong and selfish. If a small lie is told with intentions of protecting someone‚ than that is acceptable. In the book‚ My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult‚ the mother does not tell her daughter that her boyfriend has passed away. When the daughter asks where he has been‚ she simply
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For Jay Gatsby idealism and truth play important roles in how he chooses to live his life as well as how others view his life. Every individual holds different ideals and matters of what they believe to be the truth. For individuals existence and truth pertains to only what the person knows and believes in; therefore‚ how one perceives things to be is how they exist. For Gatsby the only Daisy that exists is perfect and the embodiment of everything he desires. For the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ the
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Many relationships today‚and in the past have suffered greatly from a single act of lie. A very good number of young people today‚ when asked why they lie to their spouse‚ the answer is always -To protect them. Protect who? I don’t see how lying protects anyone‚most especially the people we claim to love‚because lies itself means false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive. Therefore‚ how can we claim to love someone with whom we deliberately deceive? Lies is a box of false illusion.
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No. 20627 - Vol. 413 - 15 November 1999 - (Regulation Gazette No. 6675) Page 1 of 84 Document 1 of 1 Government Gazette No. 20627 - Vol. 413 - 15 November 1999 - (Regulation Gazette No. 6675) Page 2 - GG No. 20627 : 15 November 1999 PROCLAMATION by the President of the Republic of South Africa No. R. 116‚ 1999 COMMENCEMENT OF THE MAINTENANCE ACT 99 OF 1998 Under section 47 of the Maintenance Act‚ 1998 (Act No. 99 of 1998)‚ I hereby fix 26 November 1999 as the date on which the said Act‚ with
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The gavel pounded heavily with an resonating echo that seemed almost as if it were muted by walls of water. The sound would not cease and the chaos persisted. She leaned forward‚ clutching her head in her hands with desparation. A great weight bore down on her‚ and she recognized its familiarity as the gavel of injustice which had resounding throughout her life. The life of unspeakable villainy and oppression. "Order in the court! Order in the court!" boomed a voice‚ breaking through the barriers
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situation‚ Nat Hocken chose to lie to them in order to keep them calm. He should have lied to them for many reasons. These reasons include the following: they were scared; they were too young to know the truth; he was responsible for protecting them and keeping them calm. One main reason he should have lied to them was because they were too young to know the real story. Nat Hocken lied to his children about the deaths of their friends because they were too to know the truth. He told them that their friends
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They are "projects". Immediately this suggests a limited‚ set time‚ generally in view of a foreordained plan. How about we help our representatives on a procedure to develop into more beneficial steps and give them the apparatuses to proceed with this procedure. Try not to help the members set the right objectives - regularly implausible‚ shallow‚ or non wellbeing driven objectives are set which prompt resistance or learned weakness. Numerous individuals go after shallow objectives regularly connected
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2011 The Truth Hidden in Silence Adrienne Rich once said “Lying is done with words‚ but also with silence”. This quote means that lying is done when someone is not only saying the truth‚ but knowing the truth and keeping it to themselves and not saying anything. It can also mean keeping a secret from someone and not knowing the consequence that can happen. I agree with this statement because now and days people either lie or keep the truth to themselves when needing the truth can make a difference
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