The Issue Of A White Lie

Lies have been around for as long as people have been. We all lie, whether it is to protect someone we love of to cover up something we don’t want others to know about, it is still lying, and we all do it everyday. Lying has become the new normal for our modern society, so much so, that some of us have lost our morals completely. It is just so much easier and quicker to just lie to someone than to tell the truth, and now you can never tell who is lying to you or who is telling the truth. People use to have morals about lying and many people would feel bad about it and teach their children to never lie, but now in today’s society they just pop out of our mouths like they're nothing. We will never stop lying because it’s easier to live a lie

Abel Fields of California, attended a meeting about public safety. He was explaining his military experience gave him knowledge to speak with authority about public safety issues. He had served in the military for eight years. Fields claims was false. He prosecuted and convicted under the stolen valor act. Fields appealed to the 9th circuit court appeals. The 9th Circuit ruled in his favor.

under the Stolen Valor Act, which states that no person can lie about receiving military awards.

The Stolen Valor Act was later reformed under the suggestion of the Supreme Court. Mr. Alvarez was charged for falsely representing that he had been awarded two Congressional Medals. The Stolen Valor Act violates the First Amendment because even though it protects you from free speech, false states do not present a threat and criminal punishment was not necessary. According to the court, the First Amendment is broad enough to to cover intentional falsehood and when the person is not under oath. False statements of fact should be subject to intermediate scrutiny; however, as drafted, the Stolen Valor Act violates intermediate scrutiny because it applies to situations that are unlikely to cause

Abel Fields was convicted due to the fact that while speaking publicly, he lied that he had been in the Military for 8 years and that he had been awarded a Purple Heart Medal. Abel was then convicted under the Stolen Valor Act. The Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled in Abel's favor. Before the Supreme Court, Field's argued that his first amendment rights had been violated and that the Stolen Valor Act was unconstitutional. The court of Appeals who dissented from the opinion of the court, said that, the law was constitutional and it did not set a harmful

The first amendment, the right of freedom of speech is one of the most important classic fantasy to almost anyone living in the United States, building the foundation of our nation. This right gives us plenty of different opportunities to express our opinions and political viewpoints on any issues in America. But it comes with a price, people have been protesting multiple different events trying to prevent people from expressing opposing opinions or political viewpoints on that has issues in America. For the minority of people, expressing a different opinion should be protected no matter how controversial or insensitive it may be.

Lying is frowned upon and considered the wrong thing to do by the majority of the

John C. Maxwell once said “There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.” Meaning that Fields was well aware of the consequences, but fails to acknowledge them in hopes of impressing the mass. I do agree with the fact that he did not harm anyone because of his lie and therefore his rights should be protected. However, he did it with intention, with the example of a previous case of the New York Times V. Sullivan involved a newspaper company printing false statements about a police department. The court ruled that the person cannot be victim of libel (false-statements) unless he/she acted with malice. This has correlation with the fields case because Fields acted with Malice and thus ruining the integrity of such a medal to the people who have actually earned the medal through their service. Therefore, instead of being subject to libel he should be punished because he also violated another rule which I will follow through in my second

A lie is considered a false statement given to fool someone. At some point throughout the day everyone will stretch the truth. Are lies just really some version of the truth or are they bold and deliberate? Lying is discussed in-depth in "The Ways We Lie" by Stephanie Ericsson and in the article "Is Lying Bad for Us" by Richard Gunderman. The two articles discuss the types of lies, reasons people lie and the consequences suffered by all. It can be determined after reading the texts that lying causes undue stress and telling the truth is beneficial in more ways than one.

“...ok to lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings.” The people who believe lying is justified, usually say it’s ok to not tell the truth to cover someone’s feelings or to keep someone from being hurt mentally and/or physically. However in the long run, they may think it’s for the better but are still blatantly lying and could possibly cause even more damage than intended. “Apparently even white lies are acceptable, even necessary.” Everyone tells a white lie here and there, and if they’re lucky it won’t affect anyone, but why should it be risked? Just because we color code a lie doesn’t makes it kind of “ok.” Do we say a white lie is ok, and a yellow lie is bad, and a red lie is unacceptable?o, because a lie is lie in the end, whether is considered a “white lie” or just a lie. A person might tell a white lie, but gets caught so has to cover it with another lie again and again, and in the end turns out not to be considered a white lie anymore. Others who say it’s justified, have a different opinion on lying, but as a question, why should we lie when honesty is an option?Everyday people hear others lie and see how bad the outcome it could be, however still deliberately lie. When a person lies to you they don’t respect you in a way others don’t see, or when a person calls you a liar they insult your integrity. However, in vise versa if the opposite person lies to them they are being egocentric. So in the

Stolen Valor Act makes it a crime to falsely claim military medals and awards. A

First of the so called white lies are the lies permitted to everyone, and those even thought to children. We have all heard this in a certain time: “Ohh but it’s just a little white lie, he will never know”. Of course as a lie you are still hiding the truth and sooner or later it will come out, thus there are other negative attributes to a lie and even to those small and innocent as a white lie. White lies according to the author, are lies that we are intended to not damage someone else feelings. So far we

These white lies are often overlooked and shrugged at, when people should actually be more cautious because it can be effortless to tell a lie or not say the truth. Telling the truth may hurt someone, but you will be respected more for your honesty and have a chance to resolve an issue without having your character

If we were to lie, we would be following the rule "It is permissible to lie."

According to Robert Braul “Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.” So, is it okay to tell white lies? Do you tell white lies for your own sake? Why do you lie even though you know that no matter how big or small your lie is, it is still considered as immoral? Well, according to an article entitled “Tell White Lies (Occasionally)” there are 3 possible reasons why people lie and I agree with the author. I agree with Donald W. McCullough that it is okay to tell white lies when we know that it isn’t the right time, place, and way to tell the truth that sometimes we lie to protect ourselves and not to protect other people, and that we should be careful with the words we say.