A)Cuz the person is LAZY and wants to get out of doing stuff he would rather not, B)The person is EMBARRASED of telling something to someone (cuz it might hurt their feelings, or Hes just plain shy (BF/GF cr*p)
C) Their a lot of more reasons yet the percantage of these types of lies is little.
Eitherway, Lying to get out of laziness is just wrong, but I can see where lying from embarrasment comes from.
But if your still gonna lie from laziness eitherway, make sure you don't get caught in your lie cuz it can be very painful and you will probably lose all your respect fron the guy you lied to.
P.S. Not that Im not a liar, just I know the difference between right and wrong and I usually feel stupid after lying.
Yes...but then you get into the argument of "is telling a half truth the same as a lie?"
I tell that I am too busy to sustain an argument about whether a half truth is a lie, which is a lie. When questioned about the truthfulness of my statement, I lie. When asked if I'm being serious, I lie again and say yes.
Here's offering another view, one purely practical.
What do you gain from lying? Well, you can avoid situations you don't like, you can sometimes acquire things which you might not have otherwise, you can make people happier by telling them what they want to hear, and you can get away with things.
Now, if you're found out, what happens? Most of the time people will frown upon you lying but there's no serious consequence. In the event of a crime, if you hadn't lied you would likely have been let off a little easier. Lying also makes people distrust you, but really who trusts every person anyways?
There are pros and cons to lying, which your viewpoint shows. If I was asked for a two word answer to the OP, I'd say "It depends."
But you know the thing that gets me about this thread? A few of the people here have ignored the complexity of lying. They might be easy to make, but the ethics of lying aren't so simple. It's not black or white, it's grey gray grey.
Sometimes you need to be silent and not say to your teacher, in the middle of class, out loud that her skirt is stuck in her underwear. It's better that she hear it from another teacher and preferably another female, just saying...
Sometimes you need to be silent and not say to your teacher, in the middle of class, out loud that her skirt is stuck in her underwear. It's better that she hear it from another teacher and preferably another female, just saying...
You're telling this in a way making me think it's something you experienced yourself there wajor... so, have you?! *grin* =P
Sometimes you need to be silent and not say to your teacher, in the middle of class, out loud that her skirt is stuck in her underwear. It's better that she hear it from another teacher and preferably another female, just saying...
