Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

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Do you think that honesty should always be used in all cases? For some people they believe a white lie will do them no harm. For example business or sales people may lie about something such as why a product is faulty, why they were late to a meeting. Employees may lie about why they were off work or were late. Some even lie on their CV's and at interviews to get a job. How would anyone find out if the person lied in these cases? How about if a someone asked for feedback and the person was scared about offending them so lied? I think this would be really wrong because if a person really wanted feedback and didn't want to say anything negative when they had a negative experience or feedback then this wouldn't help the person to improve when it is obvious they would want to. Lets fasce it. Everyone has lied about something in their life. What do you guys think? Ever lied about something? What happened? Did you get found out? Was it worth it?