Ericsson's Essay: The Ways I Lie

The Ways I Lie Many people lie in subtle ways to try and soften facts or get away with something. People can get hurt or protected from pain in lies that get told to them. Or other times lies can cause them to think that a different outcome in a situation could have happened if that lie was never told. Ericsson’s article “The Ways We Lie” gives many categories that organize the different types of lies that people can say. There are different ways of lying silently, plainly obvious, or just to trying and feel better about something. I have lied in some ways to benefit my own life and other lives that I know. One of Ericsson’s categories is The White Lie. Ericsson states “The white lie assumes that the truth will cause more damage than a simple, harmless untruth.” (475). One time, my friend needed to know why his girlfriend left him. The real reason was that she was cheating on him and she never wanted him in the first place and felt sorry for him. I told my friend that she wasn’t able to stay and didn’t want to hurt him and explainedexplains why she didn’t tell him and just broke up with him. My friend moved on with …show more content…
Ericsson states “Ignoring the facts may not in and of itself be a form of lying…” (476). In an argument with my friend that was iOS versus Android, I was arguing for Android and won the argument. I told him about all of the features that the operating systemos had that were more powerful and made more bang for your buckrun for your money. I didn’t mention the facts that the iPhone had the best processing power and graphics performance and that iOS is a lot more efficient. Because my friend didn’t know those facts, I won the argument. Not bringing up those facts made the winning argument almost a lie. Sure the other facts were true and made a good stance, but not mentioning the rest of the facts made the final saying not one hundred percent final. Ignoring facts can make a lie in