Is it ok to lie? If yes, when? What situations?

Well ill explain the following situation:- 1 If it is about your or someones life so lying is fair. 2 A lie which makes your wife happy like something sweet is fair as well.

White Lie is another form of lie, but it still a LIE. Like in this kind of situation were White was used: A group of gang, armed man knock at your door. And they were looking for your parents.Since your parents are there insdie your house. They asked the kid "Hey, Kid where is your parents were going to kill them, but if they are not here we will leave immediately?" So do you will the truth or tell a LIE? See..did you get my point?

There are many situations where lies can help avert situations that could turn ugly. If my child were of an impresionable age (I have a ten year old son, my older children - another boy and girl are college going, and hence have matured to quite an extent to know right from wrong, and the subtlities of life) and asked me I would tell him or her to follow the staright and narrow part and not lie, you needn't blurt out the truth, but don't ever lie is what I tell hom.

i think ppl can lie for betterment. of other ppl...to help some 1.. but....only at one point when u see.. that. no 1 will suffer from this lie.

sometimes its ok to lie depending on the situation,if it is not going to harm anyone and save us from danger,or save life,or hurt someone.lie only if it is truely needed provided it doesnot harm any one now and also in future. if my child asks me this ill will rather tell her not to lie.later when he grows up he will understand himself when it is ok to lie.

Well, I have always taught my children it was wrong to lie, but sometimes lying can prevent people from getting hurt. The truth is sometimes best left untold! You could offer someone who has bad breath a breath mint and if they say why does my breath stink, you could say YEAH or you could say I was going to have one and thought you might like one too!

White lies are given when the truth would tend have a bad reaction.

ya it's ok to lie when we are helping others or going to do something good for human kind then i would say it's ok but not to lie for your own profit it's the biggest crime on earth for me

Its not good to lie actually.When you think a person doesn't deserve to know the truth and may misuse the truth then its kind of okay to lie though you must try your best to avoid lying. If my child or any child would ask me this I would definitely advice him or her not to lie as far as possible. At the maximum you might be chided for something or beaten up,it will be a temporary pain but if you lie to someone the burden of guilt is too much to handle.And you may lie to keep someone's heart but when the person finds out it will hurt him/her even more.Try your best never to lie.I have faced the outcome of lying.You can trust me on this one

yes it is ok to lie specially when u r in the situation that it really needs to..well if i would be ask by my children surely i will say no thats a differnt situation..haha

YES, I suppose lying is a thing gifted by GOD to us to use in constructive way. If one can save someone's life by lying then lying is good. Also, if you can make someone laugh by harmless lies then go ahead.

As a general rule I don't think lieing is acceptable. But strangely enough I do encourage my children to tell white lies! If there is a kid in class they don't like I'd tell them to be nice so as not to hurt their feelings and if granny sends them a jumper they hate...you say thank you and it was very nice! Bit of double standards going on here! I think their is a very fine line between lieing and sparing someones feelings!

Everyone lies, as Jim Carrey once immortalized in one of his most popular movies. The fact is that no matter how honest can one person be, we're always bound to end up lying one time or another, it's part of our nature as human beings. Regarding children and their aknowledgement of the meaning of lying...I believe that if you explain to them very clearly the differences and say that lying should only be doing as a last resort in most extreme situations, they shouldn't have problems with this within their first years of life. Later on when they grow up it's up to them whether lie on a constant basis or simply follow the honest way of truth.

I hate lies,I tell the truth ever!

To lie on a regular basis is not only morally wrong, it is stupid. Lie all the time, who is going to believe you when you need them to? If you almost never lie, then on the rare occaision when you need to, you at least have a chance to be believed.

u can lie when it won't hurt anyone

depend on situation.If you do somebody a surprize it's good to lie, if your trying to help somebody who didn't do anything wrong it's good to lie.That depend's on the concequince to So it's better to let him to find out if it's god or not to lie.

if you want to lie for a good purpose then its ok otherwise its not good to lie.