Ever since I can remember, I
was told that lying was wrong. I was
also told that ‘little white lies’ were okay.
The ‘little white lies’ were used to tell someone their hair looked good
(when it was beach hair), you liked the couch they just bought (although it was
made from the same material that your Great Aunt used for her drapes when you
were a little kid).
And, we all understood the
importance of telling a relative, “I’m sorry, I have allergies”, when confronted
with an awful looking vegetable dish at her house.
Somewhere between using
‘white lies’ to spare feelings, we have adapted them as a way of getting out of
social obligations, attending meetings at school, or a number of other things that
we don’t want to deal with. Sometimes we just
tell them to make ourselves look better.
What is wrong with just
telling the truth? If the other person
isn’t happy with that, then they aren’t happy with it. However, I am not advocating telling someone
how he or she really looks in his or her jeans!
Perhaps if the people we are
lying to wouldn’t give us a hard time and make us feel guilty, we wouldn’t feel
the need to do this.
What do you think?
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