Is It Ok To Lie Morally Wrong

Your friend just did a hit and run on someone's car and the police are looking for him, he comes up to your doorstep and asks if he can stay for a couple of minutes and that he will explain later. One minute later the police arrive at your home and ask if you have seen a suspicious man running by your house,what would you do?In a recent ipsos poll 50% of the respondents said, lying is never acceptable, but in the same poll ⅔ said it was ok to lie in certain situations.I believe lying is unacceptable and is wholly unjustified.

Lying is unacceptable and is morally wrong.For example, German philosopher Immanuel Kant states “truthfulness is a duty which no circumstance can set aside,”.What this means is that telling the truth always come first and all other things can be forgotten about. In addition, each time you lie you deprive people from the right to the truth, when you tell lies to a person they might think you're telling the truth and tell even more people, Brad Blanton a pyshopathrist remarks “it keeps you locked in the jail of your own mind you have to recall what you told each …show more content…
To illustrate Sabrinna an eighteen year old college freshman declared that if all the lies she has told to her mother were revealed her mother would never want to trust her again Randy Cohen an ethics columnist says that once you lie you lose currency in there eyes.What this means is when you lie to someone and they find out you become worthless to them. Since she said all these lies this makes her less of a human being therefore her mom will never trust her. Immanuel Kant a german philosopher says “Even worse it harms the liar himself by destroying his human dignity and makes him even more worthless than a small thing”What this means is when you lie you effectively cause harm towards yourself and demoralize yourself. Consequently each time you commit towards the act of lying you only cause harm to