When Lying Has

Benefits

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WHEN LYING HAS BENEFITS

Abstract

Some people are looking to such issues as it is forbidden to be discussed. Lying

to other people is an ethic crime that neither rules or religion approve.
However, some other conditions that might need the behavior of saying a lie or
couple for benefits that are preserved as essential necessity. The two different
opinions would lead eventually to an individual choice of life. To be a man of
word and never lies or to get such bad habit on every detail of your life, which
the decision is made according to a person well, raised manners and religion.

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Lying in particular conditions, such as to defend so one's life, is

defensible. It is normally conventional that deceitful in convinced
circumstances is justified. These are frequently times when effective the truth
might cause solemn damage or loss to an additional person. Some say that
people who need to lie are having serious issues in their lives and they are
always losers, as they need to lie to get benefits they never deserve. The other
side say that lying is necessary only in time of need, when somebody faces a
real problem of dangerous effects, such as penalty of death, hard punishment,
dismiss from university or school, or even in wars. The real reason behind
lying is people want to buy some more time to fix up missed-up situations, and
many philosophers mentioned that in their writing as "Carlo Balo" said once,
"man never lies, he only pretended", which the matter that may solve the
dilemma, lying is benefit of not. In our modern life, lying is in everything not
just by saying, as people lie in advertisements, media, weather as well as in
teaching untrusted materials in schools, taking into consideration that the
history itself lies, as it was written by people who might had pushed to lie about
some events in order to get benefits. There is an argue about whether lying has
benefits or not, but in either ways its already know that its a bad habit.

In the beginning of benefits is being a liar is to be able defensive

something. Let's say that you had something that belong to somebody else and
they gave it to you so you could protect it for somebody else, and one day
somebody comes to your door and starts asking all about it, so you lie to them
about it, to protect whatever the thing you are protecting may be lying can help
misdirect hostile forces. If you are in danger or you are defensive your rights, a
little lying is OK. Lying shouldn't be used to systematically increase an benefit
over others, but sometimes in order to protect personal secrets and thwart
adversaries, such as somebody trying to steal your banking info, lying is a
quick way to entertain populace and make them stop paying interest to what
you want to hide while you make your escape from the condition, be it a
corporeal way out or altering the topic (Dike, 2005).
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Pallid lies are conventional. Easy overstatements and white lies are
understandable. While telling a story, you tell little white lies in between to
make it more interesting to your listener; but only little white lies are allowed.
Big lies can make you suffer a very bad result you may never keep in mind, so
I say tell the truth. There might be numerous circumstances and conditions
when lying does rescue a precarious condition. It can help somebody in distress
and save someone's matrimony or even someone's life. Only in such conditions
can lying escape as a 'good thing to do (Charles, 2008).

Though lying can never be termed as a good way to escape, there might
be conditions in one's life when one has to resort to lying to liberate unstable
condition. If lying hand round to hoard a friend's marriage, a colleague's job or
even someone's life, one might as healthy lie and ask for divine pardon. There
have been quite a few occasions when I have lied to save my friends from
shaky positions. Though, it is a sin to lie when it is to cover up for person's bad
behaviors. To people who say no: So you're trying to tell me that if somebody
was holding a gun to your head, asking if your favorite color was blue, and you
knew for a fact that answering yes saved your life, even if your preferred color
was actually red, would you seriously tell the truth? Lying as a general concept
is immoral, but as with any concept, there is exception to that general concept.
It is honesty as a rule, but there are exceptions to the rule, as is evident in most
anyone's life. People lied to get out of conditions that I was in (Rowe, 2010).

Lying is something that has to be done depending on the condition.

Everyone lies or has lied. So what is the big deal about lying. I don't understand
how people can say "Lying is never the right thing," because everyone lies
(Dike, 2005).

Although lying is never really right, sometimes it is the best option, such
as when it is done to spare someone's feelings. Lying to spare one's emotions or
to make them feel better is sometimes the right thing to do. Lying in order to
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get to the truth is also sometimes obligatory. There are various special
circumstances where lying is the right thing to do. There are many cases where
lying would be the correct thing to do, namely when safeguarding or altering
the truth would be more beneficial than being honest. The simplest case is that
of a "white lie" (Dike, 2005).

Telling the truth is always the right thing to do. People lie for dissimilar
reasons. Some lie to avoid facing the consequences of something they have
done, or because it seems more suitable than telling the truth. Others lie in the
hope of sparing someone's feelings. No matter what the reason for lie, these
people dont understands what the long term effect of their actions have on the
person being lied to may be. When you lie you are damaging the trust between
you and the person you are lying to. Although there are some exceptions, like if
it is a individual matter. But lying can also generate a false figure about you,
and ruin potential relationships (Charles, 2008).

The truth is significant. It helps build well-built relationships, but can

also help harm a association. It ruins the trust that somebody has in you and it
is hard to regain trust. Some people may say that by observance the truth from
somebody it will save them from getting hurt. But ultimately they will find out
and be hurt about what you have done. It is better if they find out quicker than
later. By judgment out about it, and the fact that you lied, can provide them a
reason not to trust you (Rowe, 2010).

To conclude, there are exceptions to when you can lie and when it is not
alright. Some exceptions may be like telling a kid about Santa Claus, Easter
bunny, tooth fairy, and so on. Its not predominantly damaging because a child
needs something to believe in and to have fun on religious holidays. Kids need
some sort of desire. But other times, lets say, when somebody finds out a
secret or something personal about you and confront you with it and you dont
want them to know, you could even just say to them thats not true, because
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individual substance should just be reserved to you. Lying can also cause loss
of identity. Because if you meet a person and you decide to make up all this
stuff about yourself to look cool and decide to build more of a relationship
with this person and the find out they arent going to think your that cool.
Then that relationship is ruined, unless they can come to trust you, which not
many people today can. Then that person will no longer know who you truly
are. So in the end lying is not a good thing. It can break the trust in a
relationship and create a false image about you. If you stick to telling the truth
when it comes to small or important things, and keep to those exceptions, you
shouldnt have any problems (Rowe, 2010).

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