![]() How many movies have you watched where people have become FBI informants and ratted on their friends to save their own ass? If your lie is known by another person or exists anywhere in writing, you’re screwed at keeping it a secret for long. I’ve had people in my life that I thought I could trust and I found out the hard way that they will give all your secrets away when it benefits them. If your lie involves any other person, no matter who it is, you’re running a huge risk of being exposed. I have a natural inclination to be honest so if I forget that I had to lie about something I end up blowing my cover later on. I have always gone with honesty is the best policy because I’ve learned that I do not possess the ability to maintain a series of lies for an extended period of time. If you knew that by waiting a year that they wouldn’t be as hurt or hurt at all by what you had to say, would you keep it to yourself? What if it didn’t matter if you ever told them?Īre there any circumstances for which it is okay to withhold information in order to save someone from emotional pain? If you knew something that would hurt someone really bad would you tell them just to be honest? Time has a way of healing emotional wounds but time can also be used to lessen the impact of creating those emotional wounds. Most of us would agree that honesty is never the correct thing to do when lying could save lives.Īre there other circumstances that aren’t life saving where lying could be the best thing you could do? I don’t think many of us would dispute that honesty was clearly not the best policy in this circumstance. ![]() She gave her life that day but the students lived because of this lie. ![]() Take the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting when Victoria Soto hid her classroom in closets and when the gunman came to her room and asked where they were, she lied and told them they were in gym class. I believe honesty is typically the best policy, but as I have come to learn there are some circumstances where honesty is not the best policy.Ĭlearly there are cases we can all agree on that it was appropriate to lie. Even though they were probably chiseled into stone, are they really set in stone? “Thou shalt not lie” happens to be one of the Ten Commandments. Over my years I have been exposed to many extenuating circumstances where I honestly felt that being honest was not the right thing to do because the brutal implications of that honesty were more severe than if I had just been dishonest in the first place.ĭishonesty has been long frowned upon by many religions.
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