Amélie

can’t take much more stress until he gets really sick. Meanwhile you’ve been feeling sick and go to get it checked out and the doctor diagnoses you with a disease or says you have kidney failure. How are you going to tell your friend, are you going to lie and keep quiet until he isn’t stressed, or are you going to risk their safety for your sake. I firmly believe lying is okay and acceptable in our society. I personally think lying is acceptable if it creates more positive results than…

names Krebs was readjusting to life after the war. He had been stationed in multiple places such as Belleau Woods, Soissons, The Champagne, St Miheil, and the Argonne. When he people would ask about the war he felt that he had to exaggerate or tell a lie to make people feel interested. He came to the point that he felt uneasy not telling the truth about what really happened, but as in our everyday lives people love drama and action. The things that…

The use of deception in psychological researches is a controversial issue eliciting many debates in which some psychologist argues the benefits of using it such as increasing internal validity and others challenge it because of potential harm and distress it creates in participants. These debates are developed in part as a consequence of the Milgram’s obedience experiment in 20th century, the time the use of deception was commonplace. As reported by Larry Christensen (1984), because the…

ever had the issue when you don’t know whether you want to lie or not. Lying is allowable when it is used for the protection of yourself or others from harm’s way. According to an article on NBCNEWS.com, 65% of Americans believe that lying is justified when it is used to protect someone or their feelings. In another article, Teens do their share of lying, by Loretta Ragsdell, show when teens lie and what the reason it is for them to lie. In the article on NBCNEWS.com, it shows how in a 1000…

This reading basically talks about the importance of having own privacy and the harm of surveillance. We have heard a lot of people demanding for personal privacy, but what does it actually means? Privacy is a basis condition where a person can act, speak, write and even think without having anyone there to judge him. A free person is achieved when you are able to stay away from the judgmental eyes of others. In other words, if you believe you are always being watched and judged, you are not…

Have you ever had to lie to keep your friend out of trouble? Have you lied to keep yourself out of trouble? Lying can be a bad way to get out of situations if not used with caution. Most people have lied before so as to not get into trouble. I have lied a few times myself. However, lying can be helpful in many ways like to help get out of trouble in certain situations. It can also help to get respect or recognition from friends or family. Lying, if used in the correct situation, is not always…

Is it ever justifiable to lie? Lying is the act of speaking untruths, or telling false statements. Lying is often generalized as an unacceptable action. However, In certain situations, it is justifiable to lie. For example, a situation may arise where others can get injured if you do not lie; or when the act of lying is authorized by a higher authority like the United States of America. There are many situations where lying can be morally wrong and have a negative effect on yourself or others,…

Many people don’t notice that they are lying according to Sam Harris. Harris says that wearing makeup and saying “I’m fine,” when you’re not is lying. If you have ever said the words “I’m fine” and not meant it, you wear makeup or try to spare someone’s feeling, then you have lied. Everyone says that they are fine almost everyday and I am guilty of saying it too. We don’t want people to know that our life is going roughly when their life is going smoothly. We think that they won’t care and that…

“A lie, even if it does no wrong any particular individual, always harms mankind individually, ‘for it vitiates the source of law. ‘Even worse, it harms the liar himself, by destroying his human dignity and making him more worthless even than a small thing’…

The third lie is the Out-and-Out Lie, which telling something that everyone knows is a lie. As the screenwriter Ericsson puts it, “At least when this sort of lie is told it can be easy to confronted”(479). The essence of her argument is that it is easy for the liars to argue with the person who is being lied to because those liars are already have the prove before they try to act like they do not know anything. I had used this type of lie many times when I was a high school student. For example,…