"Is lying all right?" I onc posed this question in a quiz after discussing my report in the story of a Hungarian who lied about the situation of his wife in order for his children not to be hurt by the truth that their mother had passed away. Surprisingly, only 10 percent answered "no" and the rest said, "it depends", "maybe", or "yes", and then gave the reason behind it.
Sometimes we are caught in a tight spot and forced to b dishonest a little, We give half-truths in some circumstances in order to cover something up. All the while we thought we committed a slight mistake and there's no equivalence to other types defect. In our minds, we reason out, it is forgivable.
Lying might be in a form of hyperboles and litotes where we tend to
exaggerate the story in order to get the approval of people or minimize the situation to make the dreaded action less conspicuous. Such stories that put the villain in a total devilish look and make our own character, the meek and the good one, the person who is unjustly threatened. Anyway no person would make his/her own character from his/her own mouth an awful one.
In a situation where we take the credit o something, we did not do any effort to it. Is it still being dishonest? I explicitly say yes. We are aware of it and the person who gave the credit doesn't know, so, who's accountable?
Whatever the reason may be, lying is still lying. It is repeatedly declared in the Bible that lying is evil. Lying is not all right. There is no such thing as little lie or white lie. Maybe we just believed into that idea so that our conscience won't bother us. Did it bother? Should we continue that practice? Where does our future lie? Maybe something is not right. Why not just plainly say what is true. It's not hard to b utterly honest. It's the easy way out rather than threading lies after lies. Though telling the truth hurts, at least we have done something right.
Sometimes we are caught in a tight spot and forced to b dishonest a little, We give half-truths in some circumstances in order to cover something up. All the while we thought we committed a slight mistake and there's no equivalence to other types defect. In our minds, we reason out, it is forgivable.
Lying might be in a form of hyperboles and litotes where we tend to
exaggerate the story in order to get the approval of people or minimize the situation to make the dreaded action less conspicuous. Such stories that put the villain in a total devilish look and make our own character, the meek and the good one, the person who is unjustly threatened. Anyway no person would make his/her own character from his/her own mouth an awful one.
In a situation where we take the credit o something, we did not do any effort to it. Is it still being dishonest? I explicitly say yes. We are aware of it and the person who gave the credit doesn't know, so, who's accountable?
Whatever the reason may be, lying is still lying. It is repeatedly declared in the Bible that lying is evil. Lying is not all right. There is no such thing as little lie or white lie. Maybe we just believed into that idea so that our conscience won't bother us. Did it bother? Should we continue that practice? Where does our future lie? Maybe something is not right. Why not just plainly say what is true. It's not hard to b utterly honest. It's the easy way out rather than threading lies after lies. Though telling the truth hurts, at least we have done something right.
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