Is Honesty The Best Policy?

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Is Honesty the best policy

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  1. X Joe Kickass X

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    Yep. It's always better to be honest...you won't have to remember your lies.
     
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    But what about the familes who were hiding Jews and they lied? They saved there lives.
     
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    Well that's different. I'm talking about in non life or death situations. Like being honest about day to day things not once in a lifetime World War II things. :roll:
     
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    I'd rather be told the truth than to find out it's a lie later. It makes the whole thing worse, only makes the other person look like a jerk, and makes you lose their trust.
     
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    I'm talking about this in general ;)
     
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    Well you can't really generalize this. It's better to be honest in some situations, and not in others...like your WWII example.
     
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    There isn't a thing where you should lie always or tell the truth always.

    If it's life and death, obviously you're going to lie your buns off. But if you're lying about things to not hurt someone's feelings, unless it's really mean, I think it would hurt more if you lied and they found out.
     
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    I don't think that honesty is the best policy because sometime little white lies are needed. Like there was a situation where someone overheard be call my best friends boyfriend hot, and I did like him but wasn't trying to steal him from her or anything so someone went to her and she asked me if I liked him and I said no. Now the whole thing has blown over and we're still friends. If I had said yes she wouldn't even trust me to be around him. There are times when honesty is the best policy but most of those times are when it's pretty much common sense just to be honest.

    Also, who are we to judge what's the best policy when we cheat TNT every day :p
     
  10. Billy

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    it really depends on the situation. like if someone asked you if you liked tomatos and said they would shoot you if you said no and you hated tomatos then its ok to lie (ok really bad example but you get the point). but if you were up in front of a jury and you know that your friend robbed a bank and you tell them you dont know anything then that is bad because if they find out then youll spend a couple of years in a nice cozy jail cell because you lied.
     
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    In my opinion it really depends. Most of the time I would say yes but its when people feelings start coming into it that it gets complicated. Have you ever heard the saying 'ignorance is bliss'? For example if your friend is buying something that looks truly horrible on them but they LOVe it, would you tell them and risk hurting their feelings or let it go and let them be happy?
     
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    A true friend would let them know that they look crazy...I'd want to know if I looked horrible even if it might bruise my ego a bit.
     
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    I think it's ok to lie in some situations. Like if someone really likes the clothes they're wearing and they ask if you like them, you don't really wanna hurt their feelings so you can just say "ya..they look fine" it doesnt really hurt the person so I think it's fine.
     
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    yes.. its usually just better to tell the truth.. a person i know got lied to by someone for many years.. recently she found out and she's very bitter and upset about it. she says she feels like she's regarded as a stupid fool.
     
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    Very true.... xD
     
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    I'd go with honesty, but I dunno.. sometimes the truth hurts, more than a lie, ya know?
     
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    It would all depend on the situation.

    If you saw some guy rape a girl, then YES, be honest.

    If some killer asked you if you were alone, YES, lie.

    Lying may be bad, but it can get you out of a serious jam..helped me to stay on the comps at school when I was playing games during a test...I love extra credit and nieve teacher (sorry, bad spelling there).
     
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    No, because in WWII people lived because of the lies they came up with
     
  19. mckrazy

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    sometimes it is and sometimes it isnt.
    im not saying lying is good, but telling the truth somtimes just hurts too much, and who wannt to be responsible for hurtignsomeone

    mckrazy - Please don't gravedig - Marlene
     
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