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    You shouldn’t lie because it makes people not trust you. Lying also makes: you remember later on about the subject, it’s addicting and you’ll do it more often, and it can ruin relationships. The truth, unlike lies, will end with no punishment (most of the time), and lies will never turn out the way you want them to. Lying creates stress, too, and makes you say even worse things. Lying to look good in front of others will always backfire, and will leave you with less friends, and less trust. If…

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    true, if people make a lie, they will need to use other lies to cover the first lie, then the lie will like the snowball become bigger and bigger. They have to remember each lie, otherwise when people see though the lie, they will look like naked and show in front of the people. Almost everyone has lied by any kind of reasons, because they think the lie would be the easiest way for that situation to do. Even though people all know honest is better than lie, they still use lie when they face on…

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    speak the truth and nothing but the truth (Kant says, 4). When we lie the lie makes its way to where we are and makes us look bad and makes us less of a human being. Lying is what things worse for you; therefore, you should keep telling the truth no matter what might happen even if you are trying to protect someone's feelings. In addition,” people who say lying is wrong our often thinking the abstract !’’ said Bella Depaulo. When you lie you are probably hurting someone that you are lying to at…

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    saying that he is really sick and that he can't go. some people would say this is wrong because lying is unjustified but I believe lying is always justified no matter what the situation. one situation that shows that lying is acceptable, is when people lie to protect others. In the article “It's the truth: Americans conflicted about lying” by NBCNEWS, 64 year old Harold Smith states that it was worth the risk lying to his adult daughter about his kidney tumor. “why get her all traumatized?” he…

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    The origin of the three classes, in The Republic was called the “magnificent myth”. This “noble lie” was that not only was your whole childhood built up of lies, but that mother nature put different metals in your heart which would ultimately reveal your destination. This myth was told to the people so that the rulers could preserve their utopian city, the Kallipolis. The Kallipolis’ divisions of labor were producers, auxiliaries and philosophers. “One man was to do one job, the job he was most…

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    The satiric and rhetorical writings of Lucian provided informative writings. He wrote A True History in the 2nd century ADE which illustrated the fact that lying was rife within the authors of the past including academics and philosophers. Lucian argues that everyone was deceitful and alludes to the fact that others were deceitful about their lying in their writing. Lucian was no different, claiming that ‘I tell all kinds of lies in a plausible and specious way’ whilst not writing of mythic…

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    Nation of Lies Why do we lie to others, but expect others to be honest with us? Today in society, lies have embodied the lives of many to the point where it has become a natural part of our lifestyle. Lying has become a natural habit for us, it has become a factor in how we carry out our lives. Whether we may have lied in consideration of how others may feel, or if it was because we did not want to carry out something we were assigned, lying has become so natural to us that we cannot…

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    Before I start; lying is very bad. Do not lie to your friends, do not lie to your siblings, but especially do not lie to your mother. If you have a mother like mine, then you are pretty lucky, because she took it lightly and even thought it was downright hilarious. At the time, though, she thought she was going insane. The first time I lied to my mother is a long story. We were in Disney World on a family trip. It was during Thanksgiving (a bad time to lie) and we were having an amazing time.…

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    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…

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    popular and normal to society to lie about themselves that we almost don 't know what is the truth anymore. In the essay, “The Ways We Lie”, Ericsson breaks down all the different types of lying such as, the little “White Lie” and how there are so many different lies that affect us. Richard Gunderman’s essay, “Is Lying Bad for Us?” also talks about how he believes lying affects us positive and negative impact…

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