Kant Lying

Lying can save you in severe situations such as life or death. Elie lied about his age and said he was eighteen instead of fifteen. “‘Your age?’ he asked, perhaps trying to sound paternal. ‘I'm eighteen.’ My voice was trembling.” (Wiesel 31). Not telling exact information to strangers about yourself can prevent bad things from happening. He told the doctor he was sick so he didn’t have to get his crown taken. His crown could buy him an extra ration of bread and soup, so he decided it’d be smart to keep it. He said he was a farmer because it could save him from being killed immediately. Lying is one of many ways that can help people survive in certain situations.

One of Kant’s more controversial cases in which he stuck to the idea that lying would be wrong is that of the murderer at the door. If some murderer set on killing your roommate were to come to your door and ask

Lying is known as a bad thing, but sometimes it can be used for good. Dishonesty just depends on how you utilize it. In the story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain you will see lying happening very often. When Huckleberry Finn lies it is usually for a good purpose. While the king and duke use it for more greedy reasons.

On October 22 JFK announced that the Soviets had long range missiles in Cuba, which posed a dangerous threat to the United States. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade to stop Soviets from delivering more missiles. The Soviets on the other hand were heading right for the blockade and Americans prepared for war. Kennedy and the Soviets had secret negotiations were at the end the Soviets offered a deal. The deal was the Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba if the US promised to not invade Cuba and they had to remove their missiles from Turkey. On October 28 both Kennedy and Khrushchev came to an agreement because neither one wanted nuclear war. Kennedy’s quick thinking and his willingness to negotiate with the Soviets was the only reason the US was able to avoid going to nuclear war. Kennedy after the Cuban missile crisis had many ideas that he wished to implicate but sadly he was assassinated before he could do

Almost everybody can agree that lying is wrong, but are there any circumstances that make lying okay? In the book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy in the 1840s runs away from home, and floats down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave named Jim. The two undertake a series of adventures meeting lots of new people along the way. Much of the story is developed through the elaborate lies told by Huckleberry, which both shape him as a character and make the reader feel a deeper connection to him. In contrast, the Duke and The King are con artists who take advantage of people to steal their hard earned money for their personal benefit.

William Shakespeare once said, “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.” Lying is without a doubt never justifiable because lying can lead into even greater conflicts that might never be resolved additionally lying would ruin someone’s reputation; one might argue that lying can be justifiable under one circumstance which is that lying can protect people from danger; however, lying can make someone lose people’s trust.

Lying can be described as the act of telling an untruth, but just when is it ok to lie? In the articles, “It’s the Truth: Americans Conflicted About Lying,” from Life on NBCNEWS.com, and “Brad Blanton: Honestly, Tell the Truth,” by Barbara Ballinger, it provides evidence that leads me to believe that lying is acceptable when you do it to protect a relationship or someone from a life or death situation.

The parents agreed and to continue her treatment, the patient needed a compatible donor, but from the start, looking at the patient’s tissue typing, the doctor already knew that it would be difficult to find a donor. The patient had 2 siblings, the age of 2 and 4, but they were too young to be organ donors, and the rest of the family wasn’t “histocompatible”1. However, the father was and so the nephrologist meets with the father and also lets him know “the uncertain prognosis for his daughter even with a kidney transplant” . Hearing this, the father did not accept to donate his kidney, reasoning that his daughter had gone through enough, including other reasons that she could have a cadaver kidney and also that he didn’t have the courage to donate his kidney. Unfortunately with the father’s decision, he also insisted that the physician tell the family that he wasn’t histocompatible when in fact he was. He reasons that if the family knew he didn’t want to donate, this would “wreck his family”2 and make them believe that he allowed their daughter to die. Even though the doctor didn’t agree with this decision, at the end he did lie and stated that “the father could not donate a kidney for ‘medical reasons’”2. In the course of thoughts, the doctor was presented a dilemma, to lie or not to lie, and to know which decision was

The controversy over the topic of whether lying is sometimes, always, or never justified is complete nonsense. To say it is always or never acceptable would mean you’re not thinking about the situations in which we lie thoroughly. Simply put, lying can be sometimes acceptable when it brings good intentions.

If I have ever lied to someone, it is most likely that it was to benefit them. My personal practices have not prevented others from fabricating the truth from me. During my middle school career, I had built a very intimate relationship with one of my female friends. One day, as we sat in the cafeteria, I decided to ask her if she would like to spend some time with me afterschool; she happily agreed. We started going to the movies every so often.

This is because the Kantian view of never lying seems like it is too much and almost impossible. I do however agree with the Kantian question of, “What if everyone did this?” This is the best posed question to make me not want to agree with what Grace is doing, but isn’t quite enough for me to change my mind. If I was Grace I would still have done it, even after hearing the Kantian views. The Act Utilitarian view is probably the best view, because even though Grace is doing the wrong thing it is will most likely cause a greater amount of happiness for Grace and the people around her. The Act Utilitarian is understanding of Grace’s scenario and say even though she is causing some negative by lying, there is a greater positive outcome by lying because it is creating a greater overall amount of happiness. Therefore I agree with Act Utilitarian view and how they would handle Grace’s

Next, another reason why lying is sometimes okay , is that it depends on the situation. An example is , it is sometimes okay to exaggerate a story to make it more interesting. A support is that four in 10 people said it was okay to lie. My source is

There is no correct way to consider lying morally wrong or right, regardless of the severity. Stephanie Ericsson uses powerful metaphors and personal experiences in “The Ways We Lie” to justify the use of our everyday fibs. Using these types of techniques pull her readers in and broaden their judgement without being too bias or vague. Ericsson begins by explaining how she told the bank that her deposit was in the mail even though she hadn't even written out the check yet (120). This already has more than half of the readers feeling relative to her on account of her use of ethos.

For example, if I wanted to present to get something I wanted, I would be prepared to make it so that all always lied to get what they wanted - but if this would happen to any one would ever have faith in you, so lie would not work and you would not get what you want. So if you wanted to make such a maxim (lie) should become a public law, then would frustrate your goal - then it is not permitted to lie, in accordance with the categorical imperative. It is illegal because the only way to lie is to make an exception for you.

Lying the one form of communication that is the untruth expressed to be the truth. Immanuel Kant states that lying is morally wrong in all possible ways. His hatred for lying has made him “just assumed that anyone who lied would be operating with a maxim like this: tell a lie so as to gain some benefit.”(Landau,pp.171) This is true for a vast number of people, they will lie in order to gain a certain benefit from the lie rather than the truth.It is similar to if you play a game of truth or dare, some rather pick a dare because it would release them from having to tell the truth. However, those who do pick truth still have a chance to lie to cover up the absolute truth.People lie in order to cover who they truly are. Even if you lie to benefit someone or something else, it would not matter to Kant because he does not care for the consequences. If you lie but have a good intention it is not the same for Kant, he would argue that you still lied no matter the consequence that a lie is a lie. “ While lying, we accuse others for not being transparent. While being hypocrites ourselves, we expect others to be sincere.” (Dehghani,Ethics) We know how it feels to be lied to by a person, so in order to not have the feeling returned, we hope the person will be truthful. We rather be surrounded by truthful people constantly despite all the lies that some people tell. No