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    Is Lying Bad For Us?

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    Lying today is quite a disregarded subject, causing its reputation enough to make people uneasy. Most are taught at a young age that lying is substandard, lousy, or even cheap, and that you should never use it to your benefit. Of course we don’t want to be a lousy person, but what about lying makes it so? Why is it considered so immoral and frowned upon by many social norms? Luckily for us there are two very appealing essays that help us crack these baffling questions. In these essays, they define

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    taught that it was wrong. Why is it that lying was immoral, but then as we grow up we drift away from that lesson? Many can say that we are cowards who hide behind our lies. Today there exist a white lie which states that you are telling a lie to help someone. Why do we teach our kids that lying is bad when adults lie all the time? In the quote Nancy Farmer compares the liars to rats who are cowards that hides and runs around in dark places because looking at the word lying it can gives off a vibe

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    Are environmental factors, genetic patterns, or previous experiences responsible for every single action people commit in life? Why bothering in telling the truth to others when everything is justified by a certain response to some kind of stimuli? Many philosophers and psychologists around the world have been studying the human behavior for several years. Most of them have agreed on the way people react to things in life such as love, hate, truth, and lies. As a matter of fact, various theories

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    Lying Analysis

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    telling him the truth was better but lying was faster and easier because if she told her son the truth he would have asked her questions like why can’t I watch tv anymore or why did u turn off the tv we can still watch tv so it was better to tell him a lie. Lying is acceptable because u can lie to make someone stop doing what their doing. Lying is ok because it maintains your image.In paragraph nine it says that moral philosopher would disagree that all lies are bad but Randy Cohen says i'm a big fan

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    The Ways We Lie Analysis

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    Lying is in us all, we all lie no matter how good we are. An individual could try to avoid lying but eventually there would be a slip up. A white lie might not do damage but it still will be counted as a lie. What if we stop lying, what if we just told the truth and tell no more lie’s for awhile? In “How Lying Affects Your Health” By Angela Haupt, she says “lying is thought to trigger the release of stress hormones, increasing heart rate and blood pressure” (1). So by not lying you will feel less

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    When is lying ok ? I think lying is ok only when you are trying to protect someone or lie because you don’t want to get into trouble. I believe that lying is sometimes ok because you can lie so you won’t get into trouble or want people to think that you are telling the truth so you lie to your friends or family. In my opinion, I think that lying is bad but I will only lie if it’s something that can get you grounded or in trouble. In the article “Teens Do Their Share Of Lying” I agree with Tena

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    I do not condone lying in certain aspects because it is always going to backfire on you. but in some arguable circumstances you have to because you do not want to hurt the person that's why you have to lie to them. then it creates a bigger more deep lie that you have to cover up by other lies. Lying is a part of our daily lives we witness it we hear it and we discuss with each other of why do we lie? well we lie because it's the easiest thing to do we can not grip the truth and the reality of ourselves

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    Reasons for lying Lying is a common behavior in today’s society. But ever since we were young we were shunned away from telling lies and were taught that we should be truthful. Why is it that lying was immoral, but then as we grow up we drift away from that lesson? Many can say that we are cowards who hide behind our lies. Today there exists a white lie which states that you are telling a lie to help someone. Why do we teach our kids that lying is bad when adults lie all the time? In the quote Nancy

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    Laurie’s parents show much interest in who Charles is and why he is doing all these bad actions. By using irony and foreshadow Jackson shows that communication is needed throughout a family’s daily life at home and school. In the passage the central issue is a lack of communication with family members and teachers. Laurie creates false information about Charles, which causes the lack of communication to begin. His parents worry about Charles being a bad influence, while he is the actually the one getting

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    Friedrich Nietzsche argues is that humans do not really hate lying, but they do hate the bad consequences that come with lying. He states, “What they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences” (453). Nietzsche explains that lying is useful and we as humans all make use this tool. We seem to ignore the fact that we are lying when it benefits us, although we do not accept the use of this tool when it has a bad effect on society, or on ourselves. In Saint Manuel Bueno

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