Why Is Lying Bad

Lying is not always a bad thing, in fact, its a tool that contributes to survival of oneself. Many people are in belief that lying may hurt your overall well-being. Since it may hurt your pride, or make you feel guilty. However, lying is a part of the human's survival instinct. Meaning we using lying to help us survive and get through the day, so it’s technically it’s our friend rather than foe. Although this reason that lying is good may be good in a selfish way, it is still good rather than the bad way it’s perceived. Anyways, according to Russell C. Smith in The Truth about Lying: Reinventing Our Survival Instincts, “Lies can save our lives, and lies can radically alter the outcomes of events in our lives”, in other words, lying helps us get out of self-destructing situations and help us succeed within a situation. You might be thinking again, how can lying really help us survive, when it seems self-destructive itself? Let me …show more content…
As Russell C. Smith stated in The Truth about Lying: Reinventing Our Survival Instincts, “People lie to avoid responsibility, punishment, and judgment”, ultimately this means people lie in order to avoid things that destructs them. People lie to themselves, and to others in order to survive. For instance, a friend asks you how they look in that dress, but they don’t look so good in it. What do you do? You lie and sugarcoat it. Why? Because you’re trying to avoid hurting their feelings, and trying to avoid making yourself look like a bad, judgemental person. And you do that to survive, not only in that situation, but in the long run in life. Yes, it does seem wrong the fact that you’re hiding the truth. And I admit, this reason is a selfish reason to why lying is good. In addition, Yes, you may question that lying does not benefit both sides. But if you look at the bigger picture, it goes both way to save face. And people usually don’t realize when people lie in their