Tuesday, March 20, 2007

What is it so bad about lying?

Click on the title link to see the whole blogpost.

A quote:
"What is so bad about lying? We currently live in a culture that cumulatively lies our asses off on a nearly daily basis. We lie to get out of trouble. (I’m sorry, officer, I didn’t realize how fast I was going.) We lie to avoid doing something we won’t enjoy. (I’d love to go to your party; it’s just that I already made plans.) We lie to get attention (Oh man, I am feeling so sick today) and we lie to get people to like us. (I love your new haircut!)"

A very intriguing question to me, too.
If the world is now full of liars, why do we keep telling our children (and therefore lying to them), that they should not lied?

I think I have an answer, but I'm curious,
what do you think on this matter? please kindly write your thoughts in the comment.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

First off, check what "lie" means.
Second, lie.equal?(ethics).true?
D'oh but I lack of basa-basi, perhaps I'm worst in practice + in words -_-

Anonymous said...

ONCE a man do lie, he need TEN more lies to make the first lie sounds like a truth.

Arief said...

Mas Dhani,
that's certainly usually correct.

But that's not an answer to the question. If there's nothing wrong with lying, then there should not be anything wrong doing it 10 more times, right?

So, what is it so bad about lying?

ridei said...

u know,

i dont event know
i'm i a lier or not ..

i cant distinguis myself
did what i said was a lie or a truth ...

:)

sometime i feel i'm a true lier,
sometime, i really believe,
i'm betul2 orang jujur ...

so,
what actually am i ...


dei


:)
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