Sunday, October 4, 2009
Oh here is the response to the lying topic
I think that, like many have said lying is part of human nature. But i also think we all know it is WRONG, or it wouldn't be questionable. It would be hyporitical to go on and on about how people lie because I have lied before as well. Not excessivly, but typically. But I do believe that people can become a compulsive liars, often rarely being trusted. It is hard to trust someone that lies all the time. Trust is one of the most important traits a person can have an any relationship of any kind. And we all know this. That is why honesty and not lying is so important. Lying is a waste of breath. Besides if you do screw up or something happens you can always reassure yourself by saying or thinking "At least I told the truth." Often times the truth prevents us from trouble. And if I lie, I that guiltly feeling is never inviting. BUT, I find this hard to write knowing this is MUCH easier to write then do, not just everyone but me too.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
ReplyDeleteMartha Gellhorn
Sometimes if you tell the truth, it makes no differance. i aggree with you though:)
I think Stephen is right, that the harder thing to do is generally the more moral thing to do. But I also think this comes from our culture, our society, which accepts and promotes lying all the time; if enough people were generally honest, rather than generally dishonest, then the choice to tell the truth would be much less onerous, and lying much less tempting. Like murder, for instance: the vast majority of people would never, ever take another human life, and so making the choice NOT to kill is actually quite easy -- it is the choice to kill that becomes difficult. Not that the two choices are similar, but if we all told the truth, it would become simple, normal, and unconscious to do so.
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