Maggie Pierce's Essay: Is It Ever Okay To Tell A Lie

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We all lie sometimes. But does that make it okay? This question was brought up in Maggie Pierce's “Is it Okay to Lie? ,” Suzanne White's” Is It Ever Okay to Tell a Lie?” and Rebecca Herscher’s “How Small Fibs Lead to Big Lies”. All of these articles show that lying is not okay. It can lead to bigger lies, hurt people's feelings, and break trust.

When you tell a lie it doesn't feel good, does it? Lying could hurt other people. This is because it may spread false truths and can harm someone else's feelings. When you tell a lie you are misleading someone. It says this in Passage 1 paragraph 7,“a lie is a statement that is deliberately meant to mislead” (Passage 1, par. 7) When you tell a lie you may cause confusion and mislead the person you're talking to and on top of that you might cause

Because in the first passage, the text says, “The problem with small lies is that they accumulate and we lose track of them,” Basically when you lie you forget about it then you have to keep track if you tell someone something then you have to keep lying to them so they don't figure it out that you are lying. This is why you just shouldn't lie. When you lie it can and will lead to bigger lies because you lose track of them. Another piece of evidence is in the second passage the text says, “Unfortunately, not every “white lie” will stay: Sometimes a white lie turns into a white-out blizzard” Basically if you tell one lie it could turn into a ton of lies. If you turn a small lie into a snow blizzard then it could affect other people. One last reason that you shouldn't lie is in passage three the text says, “But when you keep doing it, that feeling goes away, so you’re more likely to do it again.” This is saying that when you lie, it might feel good so then you will keep doing it. If you keep lying then you have to keep up with lies. So this shows that if you lie only a little bit it could lead to more and more