Lying Essay

Lying is a common occurrence for most people, whether the lies are large or small. The immediate thought of someone telling a lie disgusts the majority of people. Nevertheless, lying has numerous synonyms that can change people’s opinions regarding whether or not a lie is acceptable. The Merriam Webster Thesaurus provides the following synonyms for the word “lie:” fable, fairy tale, perjury, fib, story, tale, exaggeration, falsification, bluff, or ambiguity, along with numerous other words.…

think of him and you know that he’s not in her league, but your friends really sensitive and her feelings get crushed easily,what do you say?These examples are why I firmly believe that lying is justified in our community! Lying is always justified when it is used to protect and care for others.For example,lying to protect others can be a matter of life and death,an example of this is Anne Frank she wouldn’t have survived as long she did if someone didn’t lie that she wasn’t in the attic,good…

What would people do to stop everyone from lying? According to longman Dictionary, lying means to deliberately tell someone something that is not true. I think that lying is only okay during some situations. Lying is okay if it doesn't hurt anyone. In article #1, it says that “you don't want your kids to eat too much, so you say all the cookies are gone.” It also says that “You don't feel like going out, so you tell your date something important came up.” I think it's okay to lie about those…

I was upset that none of my friends would believe me that they all sided with Reyna’s reasoning why I was lying. One thing my parents taught me while growing up was that lying was wrong. The telling of a lie was a show of bad manners, it was a bad thing to do. My friend’s non-belief in me about telling the truth left me to figure out how to convince them that I was telling the truth. I had…

Anne Frank who lived in hiding during the war so she would not be sent to a death camp. People should best respond to conflict by lying , hiding from conflict and writing about their conflicts. Lying is a way that can get you out of harmful or life threatening situations. In the book Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl the Van Dan's lied about staying in the secret Annex. “Lying becomes a convenient way to avoid perceived conflict…

I have to recount the most profound statements I have read in Lying-In. After an exchange with an ignorant Montana Senator, a Kentucky House Representative defends child and maternal care as a governmental duty and the newly minted Children’s Bureau in 1919. He says “a right to expect that they will have an equal chance with every other child in the world, not only to be born in health… but… to survive.” I thought back to my high school introduction to feminism. I was sitting in the…

From politics to the entertainment industry to law enforcement, all careers involve some form of deception or manipulation. Have the rigors of daily life required that society’s actions are justified by carrying a “License to Lie?” In her book, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, Sissela Bok discusses moral and ethical principles for deceptive practices. Our discussion will begin with explanations of truthfulness and deception, as well as humans’ thought process when deciding…

Throughout the course of history people who have lied will be persecuted, but giving the situation lying is justifiable. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, we see that many characters lie throughout the books so save themselves and others by agreeing to lie in order to save their lives and to claim falsely that they are a witch; although most say that lying will breed conflict and ignite it further, it is not of their best interest to care about everyone…

Lauren Slater is an American Psychologist and a writer. The book Lying “is a memoir of drawing boundaries between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions” (back cover). Lauren Slate, in my opinion, is a genius. I believed she fooled the readers. Her profession, her life is based on psychology. Psychology is based on examining the mind and behaviors. She used her profession and experience in convincing her readers that she does have problems and…

Lying, with the end goal of receiving medical attention and sympathy, is not a new concept. Although it was not until the mid-1800s that Factitious disorder was officially recognized, evidence shows instances of Malingering dating back as far as the Roman times; from Odysseus in the Trojan War, to the physician Galen (Rogers 19). Munchausen Syndrome was first described by Asher in 1951, with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy first being in diagnosed in 1977 (Feldman 1). More recently, in the last…