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Not all lies are evil. You lie to your kids when you tell them the tooth fairy and Santa Claus exist to make them happy. You lie to the guy robbing you when h
by mixmax 17y ago
Not all lies are evil.
You lie to your kids when you tell them the tooth fairy and Santa Claus exist to make them happy.
You lie to the guy robbing you when he asks whether you've got more money on you
You lie to your cancer stricken grandmother when she asks you whether she'll survive.
If you don't I'd say you were a heartless bastard ;-) Life isn't as simple as you make it appear in your comment.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoAll of which applies very neatly to the other examples of generally evil stuff: You send your kids to their room if they've misbehaved, which doesn't mean it's acceptable to lock a stranger up in their home. You can injure or robber (or not particularly care if he gets injured), which doesn't mean you should feel justified in clobbering a stranger. You pull the plug on a relative in an irreversible coma, even though starving her to death under normal circumstances would be frowned on. These are all cases in which violence -- a bad thing -- is used to prevent worse things. The fact that you give specific examples of when lying is a good plan should be evidence to you that it often isn't. Which doesn't prove that it's evil, just that it could be.
- fnid 17y agoThe only one not evil in that case is the lie to the guy robbing you.
- mixmax 17y agoAccording to you maybe. What if I have different values? See what I'm getting at?