Not exactly. Most religions say that lying is always immoral. I don't think that it is and so I do not hold myself to this particular religious moral standard.
It's called tact. You can't tell your friend he looks like a Hanna-Barbera hippopotamus from the era of Moses who flew a plane that crashed into a paint factory; so you simply say he has a unique taste in clothing.
Telling lies is like spanking children. It's pretty easy. It gets fast results. But it shows that the liar lacks the ability or patience to address real issues. Or maybe they just don't care.
While this may be true, this hurts my head because I'm someone who thinks people talk about me behind their back and lie to make fun of me. So my brain still disagrees with this.
Lying for convenience is immoral lol
In this corrupt world I'd say it's the opposite. The majority of lies are selfish and manipulative.
But if you count Santa Claus (and not an immoral one) the math starts to check out.
But can also still oddly be out of kindness at the same time once and awhile.
Lying is always immoral.
not when the truth is also immoral
Not if you don't hold yourself to religious standards of morality
Religious standards of morality are pretty damn low.
I don't disagree
OK, but a minute ago you held religion up as a moral standard.
Not exactly. Most religions say that lying is always immoral. I don't think that it is and so I do not hold myself to this particular religious moral standard.
It's called tact. You can't tell your friend he looks like a Hanna-Barbera hippopotamus from the era of Moses who flew a plane that crashed into a paint factory; so you simply say he has a unique taste in clothing.
Honesty is the best policy...which makes dishonesty the second-best policy.
How would you know?
False. 90% of the lies I get told come from cowardice.
Telling lies is like spanking children. It's pretty easy. It gets fast results. But it shows that the liar lacks the ability or patience to address real issues. Or maybe they just don't care.
I assume its the latter most of the time.
Sorry for being a downer, I'm just having a bad day.
Sometimes when you think they don't care, it's really because they don't know how to express. I hope you have a better day...and tomorrow.
Thanks man, I hope you have a good day too.
You were adopted.
Again?
I feel like putting a statistic wildly invalidated this idea. If you had said "many" or "a lot of" I would have bitten. . .but 90%?
Did you know 69% of Statistics are made up?
While this may be true, this hurts my head because I'm someone who thinks people talk about me behind their back and lie to make fun of me. So my brain still disagrees with this.