Whenever you ask "is it ever okay to lie”, people always answer as “it depends on the situation”. Maybe some of you may consider the consequences that the lie may lead to, or the motivation of the person who tells the lie. But for me, it’s definitely a “No”. You may then ask me, haven’t you ever lie? Of course everyone lie, including me.
Russell claims, lying is morally wrong, Carson believes in some cases it is preferable and Mazur states that different traditions advocate the lying in different circumstances. In brief, until and unless there is a question to save the life of an innocent person lying is morally wrong because, it diminishes trust, withholds the information that one might need, weakens our relationships, and above all it obliterates our honesty. Lying is a threat to the trust of liar. Trust is like a sticker one it got dispatched then it can never be pasted again perfectly. Similarly ones if the lying is mixed with trust then a threat against trust of any relation are produced.
The first of the four agreements is to Be Impeccable With Your Word. What people choose to say and how they say it is one of the most rudimentary ways of expressing individual personality and character. What people express through words publicly will define how they are received by other individuals. This means that if someone is expressing themselves through false word (or lying), he or she is not only fabricating their character for those around them, but also for themselves as individuals. This is living a a fake existence, which inherently means that someone has rejected their own self image.
Adults I would say, mainly lie to benefit, or to protect themselves in some way. Lies can affect people in a variety of different ways, and depending on the degree of the lie, the effect is either big, or not so big; either way there is an effect. Serious deception often makes it impossible for us to trust another person again. Lies can take over a person's life completely. The person that is lying has to tell one lie after another to keep the truth buried.
They invent a story and begin and play it over and over in their heads until they start to live the lie and become so involved in it that they do not know what is true or not. These people historically have a tendency of being mentally ill or end up going insane due to the lack of reality. It does not always have to be that drastic though. There are also times when people lie to themselves with simple unimportant lies and it becomes their mission in life to live up to the lie. The most typical types of liars are those that lie to others.
If a person really wants to protect one, they will tell the truth. If the protector doesn’t tell the truth, the ones who were protected will be lying the next time. So it shows that lying will not protect them for a long time. This is a cause and effect situation, if people lie to a person, majorly, they will lie again. In this case, I can see that lying to the soldiers are just an excuse for a moment, because they are just keeping the
Many women feel insecure, self conscious, and unappreciated because they don’t look like the woman portrayed in the media. Secondly, this image being portrayed by media can resort to unhealthy treatments to lose weight. Woman have tried to stop eating or throwing up their food to stop them from gaining weight, which has only led them to becoming ill. Other women use diet pills and meal supplements to lose weight, however, when they stop taking them, a majority of the time they go back to their previous life style and gain a majority of that weight back. A lot of women exercise to lose weight, but if they have really low self-esteem, they try to push themselves, leaving themselves exhausted and dehydrated; still seeing no results. Women try unhealthy diets, excessive exercising and sometimes anorexia to look a certain way, but in the end, they just end up unhealthy and unsatisfied.
Although, if someone does not know that they are lying, then they would act as if the statement was actually true and there would be no signs of the lie. Signs of lying can be shown both physically by body language, interactions and reactions, and verbally by the context and content of the statement. In order for someone to admit to a lie, they must face the reality that what they are saying actually is a lie, which goes against the lying mindset. Often, people make themselves believe a lie to be true as a way to make that they are lying less noticeable. This is a way for their brain to accept the lie and is done subconsciously or purposely as a way to get through the lie.
Many people may say insidious is such a strong word for two harmless words. But these words can be harmful to many people. I like to call them dangerous words because they put people in their own category. They show the separation between people even now in the days that we believe that we are all equal. “We and them” are words that people use in everyday life and they have no clue that they are so insidious.
At times we sympathize with the main character and then tend to believe all the fallacies that the author puts forward. One of the major elements in these fallacies is exaggeration. To make readers aware of these fallacies I would like to show how we fail to notice them. There are some stories that are unreal and over-exaggerated, yet these stories might not have any fallacies because they are deliberately written in that manner to emphasize or depict a symbolic meaning to the story. An exaggeration or unreality without any purpose would have to fall into the ‘fallacy’ category.