Noble lie

the Institute of Child Study at the University of Toronto indicates the skills needed to tell a convincing lie, such as quick thinking and the ability to use information to your own advantage, demonstrate a highly functioning brain” (Gibson). In order to successfully lie, you must already be intellectually gifted. To tell a successful lie, you must first be able to come up with a believable lie. You must have the ability to manipulate and warp the truth in a way that is advantageous to you and…

Regular people can also use deception and lie to other people. Some who seem honest are still being deceptive because they hid their true intentions. These people don’t appear to be presenting false or altered information, but there is a difference between honesty and integrity. Honesty is simply not telling a lie, while integrity is knowing what is the right thing to do. “A person may be entirely honest without ever engaging…

Persuading someone is any means necessary to make someone believe your point, but where does it become wrong? There is always that guilty feeling for telling a little white lie to persuade someone even when your intentions are good. It’s difficult to go around the fine line of manipulation when we try to convince someone to do something. Living in today’s society it is easy to manipulate the truth when using our rhetorical skills. Rhetoric is any means necessary for persuasion. Truth is that…

How does our perception of reality serve us? Do the lies presented to us by those we surround ourselves with affect us adversely; or do they add to our happiness until revealed? Guy de Maupassant gives us with a chance to discover this in his short story, “The Jewelry”. A simple man is deeply in love with a woman he adores. He places his wife upon a pedestal of perfection, and until her death reveals that his perception of their life together was not a true reality, she remains the source of…

In the essay The Ways We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson, she mentions on how she discovered that telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible because it would be living with some serious consequences. Throughout the history of the United States and other parts of the world, a high percentage of people tend to not be able to tell the truth when they are asked simple questions by members of their family or by their close friends. As telling the truth may have consequences, telling lies may have…

different ways of interpreting deception based on how it was used upon them or how they’ve used it on others to get what they desire. But for me, it wasn’t that big of a deal in my life. It was always that lie you told to your mom when you were younger saying you didn’t hit your sibling, or the white lie you told your best friend to avoid hurting their feelings. But after doing this research paper I learned that there are a lot of deeper forms of deception than what I had originally thought to…

(at least 2 sources) The Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank and her family are Jews in the 40’s hiding from the Nazis in fear of being taken to a concentration camp. They end up hiding in a part of her father’s office called the Annex, and others must lie saying there are no Jews living there in order to spare the Franks’ lives. http://www.officer.com/article/10232601/ends-justify-means-every-time This article discusses why lying can be beneficial in a hostage situation, as the end obviously…

In today’s society deceptive communication is used constantly; everyone has at least told one lie in their lifetime or said something, but did not mean it. Deceptive communication is how we as people exchange messages and those messages are not completely truthful. Even though deceptive communications seems like a horrible thing to do; some people that use deceptive communication do not have intentions of hurting others feelings. In the movie, “Liar Liar,” Fletcher Reed, played by Jim Carrey, is…

Arnold Friend, the omniscient inveigler and deceptive charmer of Joyce Carol Oates’, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” is evocative of the Devil himself. Through rich symbolism, dialogue, and characterization, Oates’ creates a twisted lie of a man whose every word is to be doubted. Friend is a great deceiver, a tempter to evil, for he not only invites Connie to her own rape and murder, but convinces her walk into his waiting arms. The first description of Arnold Friend tells of his…

We need to carefully consider which situations permit lying by weighing up the conflicting utilities involved. Rule utilitarianism may argue that the rule ‘don’t lie’ will, if everyone followed it, create more happiness than a rule that permitted lying. However, Mill states that never lying will lead to harm in certain situations. It is very difficult to put such a rule into words, since the situations in which…