Since the early age‚ we have taught that lying is wrong and hurts people 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. The first point to note is that although telling lie
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a football and‚ instead of reprimanding him‚ his father says‚ "Coach’ll probably congratulate you on your initiative" (30). Again‚ Willy ruins his son by making it seem as if theft is acceptable and sometimes even necessary to prove oneself. Biff learns that stealing is tolerable‚ just like Happy learns that lying is normal. While Happy uses deception to pretend that he has achieved the American dream‚ Biff resorts to theft as a form of revenge and contempt for those that are successful. Once again
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you should “act only on the maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law”. Lying is bad and can never be universalized because if it were‚ there would be no point in being honest. However this may be used as an objection to Kant because some people believe lying is ok for certain situations. For example with the Nazi situation‚ people believe that lying to Nazi officers about not having anyone
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that lying is wrong because of the negative consequences produced by lying—though a consequentialist may allow that certain foreseeable consequences might make lying acceptable. A deontologist might argue that lying is always wrong‚ regardless of any potential "good" that might come from lying. A virtue ethicist‚ however‚ would focus less on lying in any particular instance and instead consider what a decision to tell a lie or not tell a lie said about one’s character and moral behavior. Lying would
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little white lies acceptable in business? White lies are not acceptable in business or anywhere else for that matter. Telling a lie‚ either a grave lie or white lie‚ contradicts the absolute of truth‚ therefore making it wrong. Many people view white lies as harmless or innocent‚ but what they do not realize are the potential consequences of even a small lie. A white lie can be the beginning for another lie to cover that lie‚ which will cover another lie and so forth. Lying is always a snowball
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form of deflection‚ omission‚ stereotyping‚ out-and-out lies‚ dismissal and delusion; all upper-class lies that we never thought we would commit. Nevertheless‚ by simply telling my girlfriend that one white lie‚ I immediately join a higher order of lying. Is it not stereotyping and cliché to think that a girl only wants to hear that she is the pinnacle of desire? Doesn’t stereotyping mean that we are now in league with the racists and the sexists? The little white lie is so tricky. It fools us by its
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consequence‚ are told to just a few people‚ are excusable they are intended to achieve some more important goal‚ like paring someone’s feeling. I had a very good discussion for quite a while on this topic. Most people agree that for saving a life lying is okay‚ and sometimes it is necessary. There are many different opinions on other situations‚ such as if the truth would hurt someone’s feeling or insult them. Normally‚ I lie to avoid something bad that will hurt someone or make other people in trouble
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journey throughout the book shows how morality can come from anything‚ things like church‚ family‚ and society‚ but most importantly‚ from one’s self. The community in the novel states that slavery and the conditions that follow it are acceptable and that African Americans are not equal to its white counterpart. Towards the beginning half‚ specifically chapter Ten‚ Huck shows a little of the society’s values when he puts a dead Rattlesnake on Jim’s bed as a prank which attracted other Rattlesnakes
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How compelling is the city-soul analogy and to what extent does the picture of “Platonic justice” that emerges from it differ from conventional justice? Much has been written about the inadequacy of the city-soul analogy in establishing what justice is‚ and further about how Plato fails to adequately connect his vision of justice to the conventional one and so is unable to address the original challenge. I mean to show that the city-soul analogy is in fact compelling‚ or at least that is it sufficiently
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party was ‘Terrific!’ he‚ as well as everyone within hearing range knows that he is lying”(207). This proves the point behind the lie is to be polite and not showing a true rudeness so‚ there is credibly a reason behind telling that lie. Is it truly acceptable to tell a lie though? There are is no “complete answer” (207) to this question‚ but know that there is a limit to have far you can take it. Some take lying to be a very serious offense‚ especially those of a religious faith and “perhaps that
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