Let say, someone told you not to eat...a piece of chocolate bar that they left on their table. Then let say you decide to take the chocolate bar and lick it until it's all gone. When the person comes back, they ask, did you eat the bar? you would say, NO. Cause basically you didn't eat the bar, you licked it....BIG difference.
2006-11-05 06:07:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
What's true for one person may not be true for another.
However, there is only one truth for each person. And any variance from the the truth is alie.
In the above example, you DID eat the chocolate bar, even if you had melted it in hot water and drunk it, you still ate it, so your reply of NI, is a lie - and you know it is. Trying to be clever doesn't change the truth.
2006-11-05 06:18:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth is the truth, and a "little white lie" is still a lie. It can be really hard to be truthful all the time, especially when you want to tell a little white lie to spare someone's feelings - even your own feelings.
'Fess up, and make a joke about it. Say "Well.... I didn't really *eat* the bar, I just kind of licked it to death."
Be genuine. Be true to yourself and others. You'll like yourself a lot more, and others will trust you. So, you had the candy bar. Okay, big deal, there are plenty more candy bars in the world. It's not worth lying about. Nothing is.
2006-11-05 14:19:33 · answer #2 · answered by locolady98 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there ain't no such thing as a little white lie. You're either telling a lie or telling the truth, and that goes for omissions as well. That isn't a condemnation, everybody lies. When you feel like crap and tell someone you meet, "I'm fine, how are you?" or your wife or girl friend asks the inevitable, "Does this make my butt look big," and you say "no" when, from behind, she looks like two VWs try to pass each other, you've told a lie, and those are the things that make life work. The best thing you can do is leave the candy bar alone.
2006-11-05 14:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
COME ON!!! What are you, a lawyer??
Justify it any way you please, you know the difference between right and wrong. What is so hard about living a just life, one you can be proud of!
You have a choice of living a moral life now or being judged in the hereafter, you choose...
2006-11-05 14:21:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahahahahaha!! Anyway I dont think that is your dilemma !
I would lie if the truth hurts the other person!
eg. cheating partners id tell the other if i knew them well
The infamous AM I FAT? No love your just the way i like you !
You get the idea
2006-11-05 14:12:12 · answer #5 · answered by stevooo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every person see things own way. tat is every one has own Truth.
If there isn't right truth, there isn't right lie.
Everything is twisted.
On the end of this earth journey we may know the true, till then we can only think abbot it.
Someone says; there isn't US, there is only I - me.
2006-11-05 14:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by Spacekid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You can change the wording, but that also changes the meaning.
You may not have 'bitten off' and 'chewed' the bar, but you still 'ate' (consumed) it.
2006-11-05 14:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by seaofcolour 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a chasm between truth and lie.
2006-11-05 14:09:14 · answer #8 · answered by icynici 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of people who actually live by those ethics.
I would not want to be friends with them when something really counted...would you?
2006-11-05 14:35:17 · answer #9 · answered by NANCY K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you make out this persons girlfriend or boyfriend??????? It sounds like we are not talking about a chocolate at all. You did something naughty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA!
2006-11-05 14:21:33 · answer #10 · answered by ziggystarr1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋