Essay On Little White Lies

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Have you ever lied to anybody about anything? If your answer is no, then you’re most certainly lying right now. Let’s admit it, in this 21st century leading-edge world, lying is deemed as an important skill and we all do it. We all lie on a regular basis about many matters and for numerous reasons. Let’s just say, we may lie to our best friend if a certain shirt looks good on them. As a society, we are convinced that little white lies are all right to tell, but are our lies always little and white lies and is it okay for us to decide if they are little white lies? While we all, do lie, we know that it is very immoral and is a form of deception, but this is not the only con to lying. No. There are numerous detrimental points about lying that we should recognise. Have you ever been caught lying? Because the Sun, the Moon and the …show more content…

When we lie, the person won’t realise, but deep inside our hearts we know it was seriously wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong! For the whole day we have to drag the huge burden of guilt. After all this pressure, most people will confess and tell what the genuine truth was and the person would forgive them eventually. Along the same lines, lying is actually harmful to brain health, according to the psychology professor of the University of Notre Dame, whose name is Anita Kelly. Professor Kelly held out a study which included 110 people aged 18 to 71. Half of the participants were not to lie for the duration of the study and half continued lying. The people who lied seemed to have more anxiety and other problems than the other half- this shows that lying disturbs the brain. Nevertheless, instead of all this guilt bearing after lying, worsening our brain health on the way, but eventually fessing up anyway, we should just tell the truth from the beginning and just deal with a few tears or