Why Lying Is Bad

When the stewardess comes and asks what is the problem, the woman says, “I don’t want to sit next to this raghead”. In this example, any comeback that the Middle Eastern man had before she said “raghead” was completely wiped away. These derogatory words are so powerful, that they have the ability to render the victim speechless (Burke, October 2,2015). They are the kind of words that will have a person contemplating where they fit in in society, and also cause the individual to feel as though they are inferior. This can be so traumatic, that sometimes they may lead to both physical and emotional damage that may stay with someone for the rest of their lives.

and Antigone was still angry with her decision even though she must have know Ismene wasn’t going to choose her over the state, which was sort of

When we lead ourselves to believe our illusions, we can find ourselves trapped in an unrealistic perception of life. These illusions are attempts to distract ourselves from the reality that we are not satisfied with life. When these illusions turn out to be false, we often attack those who revealed the illusion to us. This is perhaps to hide our anguish, and feelings of inadequacy. These illusions are almost always damaging to us; however, to view life in a realist perspective is often too hard.

A final reason why the Puritains would protest the novel Fat Angie is due to sinful acts of the characters. The Puritians wouldn’t like there being homosexuality in this. Angie and KC Romance have a thing together. They also wouldn’t approve of obesity.

Being a girl means that you’ll (potentially) fall victim to criticism about many aspects of yourself such as the way you dress, act, or even what you like. Society gives women standards that they must follow and live by, anything more or anything less than those standards aren’t acceptable. One of the reasons I didn’t befriend many girls at school is because they were mean to me about the way I would dress, and even some guys like(d) to give their unwanted opinion about my appearance. There is one instance that really damaged my self esteem during my freshman year when my older cousin started to call me out because she didn’t agree with the top that I was wearing that day. The shirt was short and to her, I was disrespecting myself and letting others disrespect me because of the “terrible” things I wore to school.

Martha was trying to protect Cece from not getting hurt

It’s all [she’s] left with” (Atwood 294). She is so desperate by this point because failing to stand up to her beliefs has left with no other option. She depended on her friend Moira to fix everything, but since Moira has stopped fighting, they are now both in less than ideal situations. By making her internal beliefs clear and then depicting her conforming to and participating in the society that she so strongly opposed, Atwood demonstrates Offred taking actions that contradict her beliefs because she is afraid to directly defy the society.

She is different, and knows more, but the kids do not believe her, as to them, it may feel as if they were bowing down to an inferior, which would hurt their pride and dignity. One way

Dee hated... “Being named after the people who oppress me” (318). Dee even changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo being who she wanted to be. She could be very ignorant when it came to things about herself and what she wanted. She does not comprehend that her sister does not have much and truly will require the coverlets. Wangero is unmindful all around; she comes off to her family as though she is superior to anything.

Dishonesty has always been considered as deceiving others. It is understandable when people lie to conceal the truth and avoid punishments, which also demonstrates the dark side of humanity. However, dishonesty is still not widely accepted even if one has a good reason for it. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller presents several conflicts, which showcases the consequences of dishonest behaviors.

"We lie,we all do. We exaggerate,we minimize,we avoid confrontation,we spare people's feelings,we conveniently forget. We keep secrets,we justify lying to the big-guy institutions. Like most people,I indulge in small falsehoods and still think of myself as an honest person. Sure I lie,but it doesn't hurt anything.

Stephanie Ericsson begins her explorative essay, “The Ways We Lie,” with a personal anecdote of all the lies she fabricated in one day. She told her bank that a deposit was in the mail when it was not, told a client that the traffic had been bad when she was late for other reasons, told her partner that her day was fine when it was really exhausting, and told her friend she was too busy for lunch when she just was not hungry, all in the course of a day. She shifts from talking about herself to talking about everyone, claiming that all people lie, exaggerate, minimize, keep secrets, and tell other lies. But, like herself, most still consider themselves honest people. She describes a week in which she tried to never tell a lie; it was debilitating, she claims.

In “The Ways I Lie” the writer Stephanie Ericsson exemplifies several types of common lies that people use on a regular to explain that lying is more common than we think. Ericsson compiles the different types of lies into subheadings in her essay, which includes: the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and cliches, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal, and delusion. I found myself relating to more than one type of generalized lie. Ericsson began explaining the types of lies with a simple white lie. On a regular day-to-day basis, I tend to tell more white lies than a typical person.

Lying is okay when... I maintain you shouldn't believe what you hear from other people. For example in the article Tell the truth by brad blonton n states that blanton is that never like trust people unless you know them well and he saying that he is in article about telling the truth. Lying is always around people and brad says you don't know if it wrong or right.

Stephanie Ercission in The Way We Lie (1993) asserts that we all lie, occasionally, to avoid problems and disagreements, to keep secrets, and trying to protect/help others. The thing is though that we often see ourselves as honest, and we don’t realize that we are hurting people and things in return. Ercission supports this assertion by inserting quotes and explaining all the different type of lies people make and the negative consequence of each. The different types of lies include: the white lie, facades, ignoring the plain facts, omission, stereotypes, groupthink, etc. There are many words trying to get to the point of lies being wrong such as; ignorance, destructive, ignoring, victim, or difference.