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    When you lie around those that love and trust you then they will be extremely hurt‚ they aren’t given a choice but to take everything that you say or tell them as a lie. As much as it may hurt someone on the inside to hear the truth‚ coming out and telling the truth and being honest is the best thing you can do for your own health. Grownups who always lies will lose many of those friends and family in their lives or at the very least the person that lies will be ignored. They will get in trouble

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    Dan Ariely: Why We Lie?

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    social species. We lie to protect our ourselves and others from harm. Yet there are some types of lies that can cause more havoc than good. For my experiment or study‚ I am examining what factors incline us to lie the most. Also how they affect our society in a negative or positive way? First of all‚ what is a lie anyway? A lie‚ according to google‚ is an intentionally false statement. Which in a way is correct‚ but I think due to certain situations we don’t want to lie but we have to. According

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    10 Reasons Why People Lie

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    10 Reasons Why People Lie The invention of lying probably dates back to the invention of communication itself. It can be said that lying is‚ in fact‚ a basic need for social existence. A lie can serve a lot of purposes. We take a look upon the most common reasons for which people resort to lying. 1. To Please In order to maintain the pleasantness of any social situation‚ people have to lie. Questions like ‘How do I look?’‚ ‘Am I getting Fat?’ or ‘Did you like my gift?’ are bound to fetch lies

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    The title of this book is “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie.” If the word “lie” from the title was meant to mean “lie down‚” the title would be a play on words because you usually lie down when you sleep. So‚ they are saying that freshmen are too busy doing homework and other schoolwork to lie down and sleep peacefully. If the word “lie” means not telling the truth‚ then the title would be saying that freshmen who are sleeping never tell lies‚ which is obvious because you can’t talk when you’re asleep

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    about when people lie and how at times it could be the right thing to do in certain times and how some people might view it as the wrong thing to do even if it is for a good reason. We see every day that people who are in power or famous lie about something so simple that it ends up destroying their career or even ruin their lives at home. An example of this from the reading is when Ross Perot lied about not going into the people who worked with him private life. Ross did not have to lie about going into

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    It seems that Kant has a much more conservative view towards lying and when it is permissible. Grotius has a much more liberal‚ modern‚ and understanding view on the issue. Kant pretty much thinks that it is one’s duty to speak the truth‚ although this moral principle is not taken unconditionally in the world today. This is a duty because it is every man’s right to know the truth and lying to anyone would be taking this right away‚ which mortals should not have the power to do. However‚ if a

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    point in their lives. The simple true is we all lie. While reading the “Ways We Lie” by Ericsson’s it was very clear that lies are being told more than the truth. She explains many different types of lies being told from the smallest of lies to protect the emotional state of others‚ to the extreme lies being told and merely ignoring the plain facts of lies that cause real pain. Lying has become all most a reality and a real feeling‚ even when it is a lie. Why are we justifying are lies‚ does it make

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    Have you ever thought of how much you lie? How many times did you lie today? Many people lie about lying? More than you could imagine. I could try and be honest by saying that during this week‚ I wrote a journal that made me realized that I lie more than I even knew. I tried to keep track of my daily lies by writing it down but I wasn’t too honest‚ and I spiked a couple of lies. Is that consider lying too or just keeping the truth to myself? Either way‚ I was too embarrassed to confess that I have

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    do I think lying’s the best [for any situation]." But what if he knew how lying is inevitable in our everyday lives and how they could be of use in certain situations‚ like Ericsson’s Vietnam veteran example? In "The Ways We Lie"‚ Ericsson covers on the many ways we lie in our daily lives‚ besides the typical deceptive statements. Some include the notorious ’white lies’‚ omission‚ delusion‚ facades‚ and groupthink scenarios. Lies are mostly devices for selfish motives or self-promotion (though

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    Lies have been around for as long as people have been. We all lie‚ whether it is to protect someone we love of to cover up something we don’t want others to know about‚ it is still lying‚ and we all do it everyday. Lying has become the new normal for our modern society‚ so much so‚ that some of us have lost our morals completely. It is just so much easier and quicker to just lie to someone than to tell the truth‚ and now you can never tell who is lying to you or who is telling the truth. People use

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