Essays on Lying

Lying is something that everybody has done, regardless of whether individuals might want to let it out or not. Irrespective of this ideally regretful occurrence, individuals regularly don't comprehend why somebody would lie. In this research, it begins to speak about the lawful field where victims and offenders lie to get around talking about the severe cases that have occurred. These people may at first lie about the event, but as a rule, these same individuals accept their lies and speak the ...

In Sissela Bok's "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life," the philosopher examines the behaviour of lying and deception in public and private life. The results of such lies are then investigated through many real-life situations in which people are involved, either as liars or as the victims of deceit. The main focus of this paper will show that Bok did not adequately address an objection to the position that she discusses. Sissela Bok believes in ethics, morality, and individual ...

“Forget that crap about the patient not being ready for therapy! It’s the therapy that’s not ready for the patient. But you have to be bold and creative enough to fashion a new therapy for each patient.” ~ Irvin Yalom, Lying on the Couch Irvin Yalom’s Lying on the Couch is a work of fiction that extends beyond its narrative to extend moral, ethical, and professional tidbits of wisdom for the working psychologist and psychiatrist. It is, after all, a work of satire, and works toward ...

Is it better to tell a harmless lie or a hurtful truth? Most believe that “white” lies couldn’t hurt a soul, but what happens when lying becomes easier than telling the truth? What happens when people start believing your lies? In most cases, a small lie every once in a while is easy to get away with, but when lie after lie forms a big pile of deceit, you’re in trouble. When lying becomes a habitual way of life, it leads to more difficulty than you asked for. Sooner or later, lying becomes a ...

In The Invention of Lying, a man discovers the idea of lying, of simply saying anything other than the truth, in a society where that has been inconceivable. The society itself has had a strange way of telling the truth, of simply blurting out everything regardless of its propriety, or lack thereof. I think because of the recklessness of the truth used in The Invention of Lying, the film is inaccurate for a society that could only tell the truth. People have the will to hold back what they ...

Many of us lie and we beautify it or make the concept more acceptable by wrapping it up in euphemism and calling it easier names like 'fib' or in the Nigerian context, 'scope'. Case in point, a pretty lady in a bus to Lagos from Ibadan picks her call and is heard saying, "I can't possibly make it to Ibadan tomorrow morning because I'm in Abuja at the moment". She drops the call and smiles at other passengers in the bus and says, "I scoped him" and everybody laughs with her. This makes one ...

Lying has various connotations and an almost unanimous judgment or opinion – that it is unjust, or sinful. This is thinking in a general sense. When digging deeper into an honest man's reason for lying, it is much more than can be defined through an emotional reaction or selfish intentions. While, a habitual liar's reason for lying, is likely buried much deeper into their childhood. The motivations, lurking variables, intentions, fears, and other contributing factors that create a lie can be ...