Have you ever lied to someone? While honesty can be bad, lying can cause problems between people’s friendships and relationships, such as break ups, cheating and fall outs.
Lying and not telling the truth to people in certain situations can be taken as a bad thing because it can hurt people.
Lying to people, even if it’s a small lie, can be very hurtful and distressing towards people’s emotions and feelings. From the article “Little White Lies: How Dishonesty Affects Intimate Relationships,” it states, “According to people who detect lying and liars as part of their profession (detectives, members of the FBI, and so forth), we all tell “white lies,” or lies intended to protect others, every day. “That dress is gorgeous on you!” is something we might say to protect someone we care about or to protect the relationship we have with them, for example. We understand the listener would not benefit from hearing the truth and would likely feel hurt instead.” This explains how even little white lies can be harmful towards people’s feelings, possibly causing an unwanted reaction if we tell them the hurtful truth. So, instead we tell them a comforting lie.
Some people say that telling lies, especially comforting lies, isn’t a bad thing, as long as it’s protecting someone’s feelings. This isn’t completely true because these lies just provide comfort; they do not give the person any sense of reality. To add on, it is not a sense of real comfort, as it is in the form of a lie just in the moment.
People need to start being more honest but in a more kind way. We need more kindness in the world, and it can only start through us humans and the way we act towards each other. If we can get rid of the lying factor, it’s one problem out of the way.
To sum it up, lying and dishonesty is a negative factor in today’s world because it can cause issues between people and their friendships, relationships and other personal components.
