Telling Lies

In some ways, telling lies virtuously is a sort of an art a human being can´t exist peacefully without. Can you imagine telling your 130 kg weighting boss straight how frightfully she looks in her new leather mini skirt? If you are a mentally sane person, probably not. Even if you want to help her, you need a portion of lies, that is called diplomacy, first. As we Czechs say, tell the truth, but be sure to know how to escape afterwards.

I find the worst of lies the lies that are meant to harm somebody. I understand merciful lies, though they can cause more harm than good, lies used to shield somebody we like, despite we often get hurt instead of that person, or even lies to gain an advantage or save our own neck - those are the things everyone can do and still remains relatively good. The milestone between let's say OK lies and bad lies like the malicious ones is in cruelty. And that is, as I hope we'll all agree, most of the times bad.

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