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    Lying is a common occurrence throughout the play of The Crucible despite every character being a “believer.” In this play, Miller demonstrates characters being freed by the sin of lying. This theme has shown that the people of Salem lied to protect themselves or others. This also happens in everyday life and is a common issue that can be shown through false confession. The Crucible has shown many ways of how this theme is influenced in the real world. The two main situations from the play that show

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    Why Is Lying Unjustified

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    Lying, it’s everywhere. Almost 60% of most adults can’t go ten minutes without telling a lie. Some people lie to protect other people, while others lie to benefit themselves like maintaining the perfect image they care so much about. However, lying is completely unjustified unless you’re protecting yourself or someone else from danger. This idea can be further proven with evidence from a variety of articles. To begin, many people believe that lying is unjustified, like German philosopher Immanuel

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    Imagine that you were talking to a girl / boy that your friends don’t like , she/he was talking about them . She leaves and they ask you , was she talking about us ? would you tell the truth or lie and say no ? Lying is justified when it can be used to protect and care for others for example , when your partner and you are going to an award ceremony and she asks you if she looks okay but you don't think she does . Sometimes you need to lie to protect others . Hurting people is wrong

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    and should be used, whereas other times lies are harmful and should not be used in this situation. Experts like Immanuel Kant believes all lies are justified since there not that harmful. To me lying is sometimes justified, because lies aren't always needed and it isn't always good to lie. First of all, Lying is sometimes justified because lies aren't always needed. Some say lies aren't always needed which in my opinion, is true. For example, ¨If someone is fat dont tell them that they are fat because

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    Kant Lying Is Wrong

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    focuses on the logic of a moral judgment. Suppose we allowed lying, so that instead of telling people they ought not to lie, we tell them that lying is fine. So we all decide to follow the moral judgment that "Lying is right." Now, when you tell me something, I consider that you might be lying, so I cannot EVER trust what you say. Because of that conclusion, I realize that you cannot even lie to me! That is, the rule that allows lying makes lying impossible. That is the logic that

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    When Is Lying Necessary

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    As aforementioned, there are not many situations in which lying is acceptable. Lying is never something good to do, I always think that if you are doing something that you need to lie about, then it is the wrong thing. I also think that the omission of details is considered a lie, one example of this is in Mark Twains, Huckleberry

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    Views Of Lying Research

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    Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year There have raged debates for centuries around the concept of lies, lying and their usage. Various views have been felt and held with strength and passion. There are those of the view that there is no circumstance where a lie could be acceptable. Two notable advocates of this stance were St Augustine 421 who spoke of this

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    Lying: Article Analysis

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    people lie, but when is it actually justified to lie and when is it not justified? In four articles each author shared their opinions on lying. Each author had a different perspective on the topic. Lying is sometimes acceptable when it is used to protect the feelings of others. Sometimes it’s never okay to lie, but in some situations one can get away with lying without hurting anyone’s feelings. In article 1, it states,“Yet in the same poll, up to two-thirds said it was okay to lie in certain situations

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    writes, “No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle.”(Miller 144) In other words it shows that Abigail is lying about the girl who was naked and dancing with them at night in the middle of the woods. She told Paris that there was no girl dancing in the woods because she knows that they will all get in a lot of trouble so she start lying. This relate to my topic because it is about lying, and how the play started by how a lie drag another lie which lead to people dying. Abigail started accusing

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    Why Is Lying Bad

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    everyone has lied once in their life many people feel lying is a a bad thing to do. Lying is okay sometimes like lies to protect others,lies to get out of a situations,and lies to protect yourself. Accordingly to the Article Lies,Lies,Lies published on october 5, 1992 by Time Magazine states lying is okay when you're protecting others for example you can take take for the team and also they hide jews in houses because wanted to kill them. Lying to protect other can be a matter of life or death situation

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