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The second article, “Is Lying Bad For Us?” by Richard Gunderman is a more persuasive and cohesive article than the initial article titled “We’re All Lying Liars: Why People Tell Lies, and Why White Lies Can Be OK” by Ulrich Boser.
Both of these forementioned articles were well-written and raised some good points to the discussion of the meaning and morals of lying, the second article “Is Lying Bad For Us” was more focused on the positive and how people can potentially become happier and live more fulfilling lives if the effort is used to tell the truth more often and live with pure and truthful relationships. The strength of the second article was also supported by the opening use of an epigraph, a strong quote relating to the topic that catches the reader’s eye. “There are mental and physical consequences, but we should strive to live more truthfully, regardless, to understand reality.” (Richard Gunderman, The Atlantic, 2017) …show more content…

It is morally acceptable to tell certain white lies because it does not cause problems within oneself or cause any major issue with the people surrounding them. An example of the weakness of a white lie comes from the first article as stated, “When telling white, or social, lies, they usually don’t feel any anxiety at all” (Ulrich Boser, 2017). This lack of anxiety is from the fact that this white lie doesn’t directly impact anybody positively or negatively, meaning the accuracy of the statement isn’t very important. Therefore, white lies can be often morally acceptable and frequently do not pose problems within

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The White Hat Prevails All Within Stephanie Ericsson essay, “The Ways We Lie”, she did a profound job of explaining and deciphering the reasons as to why people lie. Ericsson explains how specific lies carry dire consequences and may be detrimental to the individual being lied to. Her target audience is everyone because, lying is an action that relates to us because it’s an internal instinct given certain situations. To add, she outlines her essay by including relatable situations that happen in real life as the foundation of her argument. By using both elements of ethos and pathos, Ericsson strategically uses rhetorical strategies in order to bring awareness to the effects of dishonesty.

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Lying becomes a normal part of our everyday routine because “everyone does it.” Ericsson goes further in describing the effects of lies by stating, “Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish” (Ericsson, 2004, p 128). Lying presents itself in many seemingly harmless forms. When a lie does not present itself as a blatant lie, it often slips unnoticed because the other forms of lies have already been accepted as part of everyday

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