Imagine someone is wearing something , they say “does this look good” and you say “it looks good” so you won't hurt their feelings. I firmly believe that lying is acceptable in our our society.
Lying is justified when it can be used to protect and care others.In The U.S. Political Campaign on paragraph one it tells you that “lying to protect others can literally be a matter of life or death.” Then it talks about how, “Anne Frank survived as long as she did because those sheltering her and family lied to the Nazis.”(Time Magazine 1) Lying is right when you need to if you know that something bad is going to happen.If you don't lie sometimes you could get hurt just like the story of Anne Frank and her family.In addition, Cohen says that he is a “big fan of lying.”Then he says “its obvious that why we lie and that is to protect someone from serious harm.”(NBCNews.com 2) One of Cohen’s example is that “your spouse is about to accept a Nobel prize, asks if they look fat or you are going to a ceremony and you tell them they look fabulous,” Cohen …show more content…
Also lying for positive results.(Loretta Ragsdell 7)A teenager name Tim , 18, says “to be a good liar is to keep it simple.”Examples he brings up are”lying to their parents about drinking beer, taking cars for joyrides, and girls lie so they could be at some dude’s house.”This might feel like there will create a lot of negative results but it doesn’t because if you keep the lie simple there will be positive results.If lying creates positive results than negative ones then go with the
Lying is justified when it can be used to protect and care others.In The U.S. Political Campaign on paragraph one it tells you that “lying to protect others can literally be a matter of life or death.” Then it talks about how, “Anne Frank survived as long as she did because those sheltering her and family lied to the Nazis.”(Time Magazine 1) Lying is right when you need to if you know that something bad is going to happen.If you don't lie sometimes you could get hurt just like the story of Anne Frank and her family.In addition, Cohen says that he is a “big fan of lying.”Then he says “its obvious that why we lie and that is to protect someone from serious harm.”(NBCNews.com 2) One of Cohen’s example is that “your spouse is about to accept a Nobel prize, asks if they look fat or you are going to a ceremony and you tell them they look fabulous,” Cohen …show more content…
Also lying for positive results.(Loretta Ragsdell 7)A teenager name Tim , 18, says “to be a good liar is to keep it simple.”Examples he brings up are”lying to their parents about drinking beer, taking cars for joyrides, and girls lie so they could be at some dude’s house.”This might feel like there will create a lot of negative results but it doesn’t because if you keep the lie simple there will be positive results.If lying creates positive results than negative ones then go with the