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Position:Home>Philosophy> Do "white lies" hold the darkest truths?Question: Do "white lies" hold the darkest truths!? We protest that we need to tell "white lies" but isn't doing such like planting seeds od thorns and thistles in ones garden that will later, and often unexpectedly, appear to choke out the desired flowers and plants!?
When is dishonesty not dishonesty!? When is a lie not a lie!? Who is fooling who!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A lie is a lie!. I tell my kids all the time a half truth is a whole lie!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well we have it in our genes!. if we try to be eprfect we end up being ecxtremists, if we want to be all fair, we end up making the most brutal regimes, when we say a little white lie (actually 26 a day) to someone we dont like, when we pretend that we lkike them or wish them well we might just happen to build a desired state or a new platform for a new reality in which maybe you can become friends!. Or as in most white lies we can pretend to not notice that flaw on ou r friends, or tell them they look good just so that they feel better about themselfes!. We can make belive good trhings with the power of white lies! With the power of real lies, then we can make the world the mess it is today! Good and Evil is deeply engrained in us!. So is Light and Darkness, Night and Day!. All we can do is use it for good, and never delude ourselfes that we can use it for good at any time! Every guard need to be guarded, so we need to guard our selfs and have otehrs guard us!. Morals are our own guards, external guard re the people that surround us, maye we can use them!. It ius all complexx but in this world we will not be able to live without lying the white lies, or we would risk becoming a brutal people!. it is cool evry once in a while to read from such authors that tell teh truth as it is (eg the Che Gevara Motorcycle Diaries , or many more from the Russian empire who expoeriemented with those strict morals and got nowhere), but we can not really establish a new equilibrium there! I would wish it though! Www@QuestionHome@Com "White lie" is an etiquette term and really has nothing to do with what you are saying but rather what the other is feeling!. It is a simple courtesy that empathetic beings offer to each other on occasion!. the word "lie" in this context does not represent the semantics of a "lie"!. Here is one case where a rose is not a rose!.Www@QuestionHome@Com dishonesty is always dishonesty and even you said a white lie it is also dishonesty because you did a good thing in a bad way!. and also, lie is always a lie Www@QuestionHome@Com yer, they (white) sign treaties with indians and broke the treaties , yer ,white lies are very dishonest!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Too many white lies can usually end up making on a pathological liar!. Www@QuestionHome@Com G We both know that the lotus does not lie!. Causes and effects are simultaneously generated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com white lies arent bad, if youre intentions were good and caused no harm to anyone (and of course no one finds out about the lie) remember roses do have thorns tooWww@QuestionHome@Com |