Is lying wrong if it's for a good cause?
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Not always wrong. If a life hung in the balance, what would you say? "Sorry, I would've saved his life, but I didn't want to lose my inner integrity and lie to the crazed gunman."
Sure, integrity is important, but it's not THE most important thing in the world. Sometimes, you just gotta lie.
Edit: Oh God your avatar is animated. It didn't use to do that... Jeez it's horriying.
Sure, integrity is important, but it's not THE most important thing in the world. Sometimes, you just gotta lie.
Edit: Oh God your avatar is animated. It didn't use to do that... Jeez it's horriying.
Nothing wrong with lying in a lot of cases, its who we are. Still you should just use your brain when you deside to lie or not to. Wrong or not wrong is just a matter of perspective and your own morals.
I wouldn't say so. I tend to not lie unless I feel I absolutely have to but why stick rigidly to an arbitrary rule (never lie)? I think it's important to judge things on a situation by situation basis.
I'm a respite worker for a kid with autism, and I have to lie to him all the time so his feelings don't get hurt. For example, if some kid didn't want to shake his hand at school (he loves shaking everyone's hands) he gets really upset and I have to tell him that the kids mom is teaching him how to shake hands because he doesn't know how to yet. And yeah just weird little lies like that all the time.
Eventually I'm sure the lies will come back to haunt me at some point but hey I'm just following orders from my boss (his mom,)
Eventually I'm sure the lies will come back to haunt me at some point but hey I'm just following orders from my boss (his mom,)
That's a very general kind of question. It's down to the circumstances, and cannot be ruled as being a moral or immoral thing to do, without specific detail.
Don't we lie to our kids though about Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy, and an invisible man/woman/being that lives in the sky/underground that judges you for everything you do?
Why yes, yes we do. Now are lies really that bad. I would suppose it would depend on the situation we're presented with. Obviously, if I just got caught in bed with another woman by my wife, I'm pretty sure that a lie ("this isn't what it looks like, I swear") just ain't gonna cut the mustard.
To make it clear. I'm not a religious guy. In fact, I find most religion funny. The first statement was not meant to be inflammatory (good god do we NYer's love to talk...). It was simply the exact thing that 99% of us tell our children when they're young, so we can break their spirits when they find out the truth. =)
Why yes, yes we do. Now are lies really that bad. I would suppose it would depend on the situation we're presented with. Obviously, if I just got caught in bed with another woman by my wife, I'm pretty sure that a lie ("this isn't what it looks like, I swear") just ain't gonna cut the mustard.
To make it clear. I'm not a religious guy. In fact, I find most religion funny. The first statement was not meant to be inflammatory (good god do we NYer's love to talk...). It was simply the exact thing that 99% of us tell our children when they're young, so we can break their spirits when they find out the truth. =)