When it comes to the issue "telling the truth", I somewhat disagree with the point presented. In this society that pursuing the "art" of almost everything, I think sometimes not telling the truth is an art of life.
Not telling the truth may get a life back, especially the old. If your relatives got seriously ill, for example, got cancer,and you're afraid that he loses the courage to fight against the disease after hearing the shock, you might choose not telling him the truth so that he will do his best to get through this so-called small piece of cake.
This is the same with your beloved one. Boys always telling their girl friends how they love them by saying that: I'm thinking of you every minute, and every second. A rational head can immediately recognize that it's an exaggeration instead of telling truth. But to girls, it's not important to them whether this sentence is fate, but expressing the loveness counts.
Last but not least, not telling the truth, in other words, white lies, has an crucial status when communicating with children. Most of us have heard of the film "Beautiful Heart" which took place in the World War II. The Jewish boy and his father were caught in to prison, during months of darkness and depressed feeling; the father explained the whole prison life to the boy as a trick, even when he was going to be executed. Several months later, the war was ended and the boy got free. Father chose to tell the truth in order to protect this little heart from knowing the unjustified and crude world, and he achieved. This is still up to date even in the modern society.
All what presented above is the necessity of not telling the truth, out of goodness to the person's behalf. In our everyday lives, we need white lies.
When it comes to the issue "telling the truth", I somewhat disagree with the point presented. In this society that pursuing the "art" of almost everything, I think sometimes not telling the truth is an art of life.
Not telling the truth may get a life back, especially the old. (especially for the old?) If your relatives got seriously ill, for example, got cancer,and you're afraid that he loses (would lose?) the courage to fight against the disease after hearing the shock, you might choose not telling him the truth so that he will do his best to get through this so-called small piece of cake.
This is the same with your beloved one. Boys always telling their girl friends how they love them by saying that: I'm thinking of you every minute, and every second. A rational head can immediately recognize that it's an exaggeration instead of telling truth. But to girls, it's not important to them whether this sentence is fate(fake?), but expressing the loveness.
Last but not least, not telling the truth, in other words, white lies, has an crucial status when communicating with children. Most of us have heard of the film "Beautiful Heart" which took place in the World War II. The Jewish boy and his father were caught in to prison, during months of darkness and depressed feeling; the father explained the whole prison life to the boy as a trick, even when he was going to be executed. Several months later, the war was ended and the boy got free. Father chose to tell the truth in order to protect this little heart from knowing the unjustified and crude world, and he achieved. This is still up to date even in the modern society.
All what presented above is the necessity of not telling the truth(always/in any condition), out of goodness to the person's behalf. In our everyday lives, we need white lies.