¨The Truth Does Hurt¨ by Shawn Blackburn

Lying is viewed as a disgraceful act, but if it were used to protect people, would society view it differently? Lying is something you were taught not to do by your parents and others, but lying can be justified. The truth is white and lying is black but what others don’t see is the grey in between. Lying doesn’t only delay pain or suffering but it also protects others and avoids conflict.

 

Option:1(lie)                                                                                                       Option:2(Truth)

You’re breaking up with your girlfriend or boyfriend and you don’t want to hurt them because you know that they really care about you.  Now there are two options that you have, one: you tell him/her that you just don’t feel the same way about them (lie) or you tell them that you’re leaving him/her to make out with their best friend (truth). Let’s be honest here for once, people don’t like hurting people any more than they have to so lying is the number one solution for that.

Let’s take the boyfriend/girlfriend example again. Trisha likes Aaron, who likes Stephanie, who likes Michael who just doesn’t feel the same way about Stephanie than he does about Trisha. Love is complicated and all over the place, well when your friend Aaron asks you what Stephanie is doing this weekend, it’s better to tell him that she’s going to her grandparents’ house than making out with Michael. Lying protects people from what they don’t really want to know. Innocence is a virtue and what you don’t know can’t hurt you.

Last of all, lying is the best way to avoid conflict. Lesson number one all of you can all learn is that the truth hurts. But here’s the fun part, lies can take any kind of shape and if you know how to use that properly than you can practically control everything around you. As much as you can destroy a relationship by making people turn against each other you can make them turn towards each other. If your friend asks you to come to their rehearsal and hear all about poetry but you just prefer to spend that day to the party everyone’s talking about well one simple lie can solve it all.  

Lying is a good thing and you know it deep down because were surrounded by lies. It protects others, delays pain or suffering and avoids conflict. But here’s the ketch, for you know I might have been lying all along and theirs truly nothing worse than lying.