This weeks lecture was based on 'lying'. In this lecture we discussed why people tell lies. My thoughts on this are; people tell lies to protect themselves, for example one might lie about being late in, in order to protect themselves form being punished or told off.
Lies can be made also to hide information, for example surprise parties or not telling people when your driving test is, for this point I feel that this example is not a form of 'bad' lying.
In discussion with the class, we made a differentiation between lies which are;
- White Lies
- Major Lies
Personally I would class white lies as lies that do not hurt others or yourself and major lies are ones that do hurt others.
A few lies that come into my head, when thinking about white lies are;
- The truth about Santa clause
- The tooth fairy
- The Easter bunny
