2007-11-26 13:07:28 · 8 answers · asked by loves_the_beach 4 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
NO!
If you tell someone a lie, to persuade them to help out an environmental cause and they later find out that you lied, then you will do more damage in the long run.
For example there is a lot of debate among the general public about global warming, but there is almost unanimous agreement among the scientific community that it is real. The reason the debate exists among the general public is impart do to misinformation spread by the press, scientists, and individuals trying to convince others that global warming is real.
2007-11-26 13:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by sparrowhawk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you're at a wedding, you tell the bride she's beautiful and the groom he's handsome, whether true or not. You could say the beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
There are places for bald honesty, but in this case it's best not to hurt someone's feelings.
On the other hand, if one stretches the truth all the time, a person's word is worthless.
As far as the bible goes, it discusses "false witness", which is the specific matter of perjury in court, in which a person's life, honor and property may be at stake, and, from the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, you can see the trouble a lie caused.
2007-11-26 22:38:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Algore thinks it's OK in the below QandA taken from an interview for Grist Magazine. He says basically that
Americans are dummies and need to be lied to to get our head straight
>There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?
I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis. <
2007-11-26 22:52:34 · answer #3 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only place I see a lie as acceptable was in the Bible when you lie to save someones life.
2007-11-26 21:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by kevin s 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course!
The most good for the most people is the only moral law worth worrying about.
Forget the old guy with the beard sitting on a cloud. Think about the real live people that are around you every day.
2007-11-26 21:30:38 · answer #5 · answered by Paul B 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No it is not OK to lie but If it is to save some1's life diffidently YES!
2007-11-27 17:38:11 · answer #6 · answered by ~Decode ♥ Me~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The ends do not justify the means.
2007-11-26 21:22:40 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of couse not!
2007-11-26 21:41:42 · answer #8 · answered by 1340 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋