Assertion: lying | /r/HasProperty | wrong
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: morally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Most people would say that lying is always wrong, except when there's a good reason for it - which means that it's not always wrong!
text: If 10 lies are worse than 1 lie then it would seem to be a good thing to tell the first lie, but if lying is always wrong then it's wrong to tell the first lie...
text: And if that is the law then lying is always wrong - even if telling the truth would produce far better consequences: so if I lie to a terrorist death squad about the whereabouts of the people that they’re hunting, and so save their lives, I have in fact done wrong, because I broke the rule that says lying is wrong.
text: Some philosophers, most famously the German Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), believed that that lying was always wrong.
text: St Augustine, The Enchiridon Christian theologian St. Augustine (354-430) taught that lying was always wrong, but accepted that this would be very difficult to live up to and that in real life people needed a get-out clause.
text: the person telling the lies may find it easier to lie in future and they may come to blur the boundary between white lies and more blameworthy lies White lies weaken the general presumption that lying is wrong and may make it easier for a person to tell lies that are intended to harm someone, or may make it easier to avoid telling truths that need to be told - for example, when giving a performance evaluation it is more comfortable not to tell someone that their work is sub-standard.
text: Your child also must mature to the point where he or she has a conscience in order to understand that lying is wrong.
text: the fact that lying is wrong
text: But if the common teaching of Catholic theology on this point be admitted, and we grant that lying is always wrong, it follows that we are never justified in telling a lie, for we may not do evil that good may come: the end doesn’t justify the means.
text: The philosopher Immanuel Kant said that lying was always morally wrong.
text: A second perspective, virtue ethics, also maintains that lying is morally wrong, though less strictly than Kant.
text: For these reasons, critics claim, lying is morally wrong because we cannot accurately measure lies' benefits and harms.
text: Why bipolar lying is wrong
text: Augustine tells this story to provide a saintly witness for his argument that lying is always morally wrong, regardless of the circumstances, and to note that God is perfectly capable of extricating from trouble those who stand fast in the truth.
text: Nearly any adult will tell you that lying is wrong.
text: The fact is, apart from divine revelation it cannot be proved that lying is wrong.
text: The adage that, “Lying is always wrong” is horse-s**t.
text: Instead of simply instructing children that lying is wrong, Victoria Talwar and her colleagues found that the form of instruction was particularly important.