Are all lies actually lies? Have you ever told a lie to get out of trouble?
By davido
@davido (1623)
Canada
June 8, 2012 9:05am CST
Some call them white lies, blue lies and deadly lies...but have you ever tell lies that got you out of trouble, saved your a**, made you avoid unnecessary arguments or save someone else from small or big problems? Lets share our experience..:)
Of recent I was invited to a club and at the dying minute I had a strong feeling not to go so my friends called me to pick me and i just dont know what to tell them I did not pick the call, then they left after like 2hrs I sent an sms to them saying I am sorry i just slept off and that my phone was unknowingly on silent so i did not hear their calls- yeah its a lie. The saving thing was that one guy was shot right at the bar while trying to stop a fight, he died and I felt it could have been anybody if i had gone.
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8 responses
@Chikezie (385)
• Malaysia
8 Jun 12
Davido,
In life there are to parameters to check a content, they are true of lie. People do not expect one to be perfect but they expect one to be perfectly honest. Morals are bring lost today and that is why people lie and call it all sort of names. As long as life is concerned, you are either telling lies or truth. Any person that lies to me makes me to to look at him with contempt.
As for the question of me telling lies to get me out of trouble, am sorry, I cannot vividly remember. I love your discussion. I hope folks would contribute and lets see their perspective. Lies are lies and truth are truth and no in-between them
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
10 Jun 12
Not going to the club was wise, but the story you told your friends was a lie. My husband tells those kind of lies to people all the time, even occasionally to our gown children. It makes me think, "If he lies to others, it means that he probably lies to me, too." Thus, it is difficult to completely trust him.
@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
9 Jun 12
I don't really see the difference between lies... If you tell someone intentionally a wrong thing or other than the truth, it's a lie... There are situations when you might have been mis-informed about something & not knowing it, you may have relayed a wrong information... But then that wouldn't be a lie because you weren't in the position to know the truth... For me, that's why the intent is important & the knowledge of facts at the time you are telling something to someone else...
@celticeagle (167071)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Jun 12
Yes, white lies. I think we all lie a time or two when we are young but as we get older we aren't as apt to get into situations where we feel a need to lie. I would have just told them the truth. Lying is the lonliest place to be. You should go with your gut feelings. And you don't have to lie or make excuses. You just decided not to go.
@Kashidanga1971 (1354)
• Bangladesh
9 Jun 12
Hiya Davido, lie is not lie if this lie is for to protect, preserve or maintain ideology. Ideology is greater than life. So at any cost we have to uphold ideology, be it by lie or truth or even by life. Thanks
@gerhardspiele (4)
• Slovenia
9 Jun 12
"Adapting" the truth in order to avoid some arguments or events sometimes just happens without even thinking that much. You just go "yeah, yeah ..." or "ehm, i don't feel that good, have to finish some work, so I'm gonna be staying home tonight ...". It's technically a lie, since it's not the truth by default, but it doesn't really hurt.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
9 Jun 12
I think that a lie will always be a lie no matter how you look at it. There are just deeper levels to some of the lies we tell. the problem with telling a lie beside it not being the truth is that each lie needs to coverup yet another lie. it can keep building and building until it is out of control. I would have to admit that i Have told a lie or two to get myself out of trouble,=. One of the fallacies of growing up.
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
8 Jun 12
Sometimes we just have to lie for a good cause. I mean a lie should be good if it can help others to get away from trouble or make things easier for someone that is of genuine positive interest. I did quite a lot of such lies in order to protect someone or give me a way out. For example, I always tell my dad that I have enough pocket money so that he would not give me too much and would not burden him that much. 
