Why Lying Is Wrong

Imagine you’re the best student in your class. You have the highest GPA and are a great test taker. One day you go in to take a test, and you space out. The paper is alphabet soup, a crossword puzzle that you don’t understand. You submit you answers and see you grade. You get a 50%. All you other classmates seem to have gotten a 90% or higher, and your the most vulnerable that you’ve ever been. You friend comes up to you and leisurely asks you what you got. You think in the back of you head, “Don’t lie to them. That’s the wrong thing to do.” Your friend say that they got a 100% and that the test was easily. You wait and respond with, “Yeah it was easy! Of course I got a hundred!”. Lying is always the wrong thing to, but in some situations it is more wrong than others. Lying is okay if it’s a white lie, but it is not if let it snowball into something bigger than that. When you lie, you have to make sure that it isn’t going to effect anyone in a negative way.
Imagine in the previous situation, you tell the white lie and you feeling better about yourself. You don’t need to feel bad about yourself when telling the truth. You always know whether you are telling a whit lie or a big lie. As long as you 1. Don’t ever tell the big lies because they will get you in trouble, and 2. Don’t tell too many white lies because you could become “entangled in a web of lies” and you might get in just as much trouble as you would with a big