Ritsuko ArakiTruth is, of course, always beautiful whoever thinks about it. However, lies are also sometimes beautiful for us as Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests.
This world does work even though it is being filled with both a lot of truth and many lies and people say truth is good but lies are bad. No one could say truth is bad but is it always really good? Are lies always really bad?
I don’t like either telling lies or being told lies. And also I’m not good at telling lies and noticing when somebody tells lies because I don’t have poker-face and it is easy for me to trust others.
There is a Japanese proverb about lies. It is that lies are a sometimes necessary ways depending on the situation.
The typical person that has to follow this saying may be a magician. When he does magic, he must keep his face impassive, otherwise the audience could realize what his trick is. How well he can cheat the audience is most important for his job.
And it is also a doctor. Some doctors choose not to tell a patient the truth when he or she gets a serious disease that will never be cured and kill. But is this really bad for the patient? I don’t think so because it is a kind of essential consideration in order not to hurt him or her mentally any more. Now, there are even people who ask doctors in advance not to tell them the truth in the case when they get a serious disease that will kill them.
Truth may be beautiful but could injure people and lies may be great but could hurt people as well. It depends on what situation and who we talk to. The most important thing is that we should distinguish using the truth and lies accordingly, and choose the right way.
This world does work even though it is being filled with both a lot of truth and many lies and people say truth is good but lies are bad. No one could say truth is bad but is it always really good? Are lies always really bad?
I don’t like either telling lies or being told lies. And also I’m not good at telling lies and noticing when somebody tells lies because I don’t have poker-face and it is easy for me to trust others.
There is a Japanese proverb about lies. It is that lies are a sometimes necessary ways depending on the situation.
The typical person that has to follow this saying may be a magician. When he does magic, he must keep his face impassive, otherwise the audience could realize what his trick is. How well he can cheat the audience is most important for his job.
And it is also a doctor. Some doctors choose not to tell a patient the truth when he or she gets a serious disease that will never be cured and kill. But is this really bad for the patient? I don’t think so because it is a kind of essential consideration in order not to hurt him or her mentally any more. Now, there are even people who ask doctors in advance not to tell them the truth in the case when they get a serious disease that will kill them.
Truth may be beautiful but could injure people and lies may be great but could hurt people as well. It depends on what situation and who we talk to. The most important thing is that we should distinguish using the truth and lies accordingly, and choose the right way.
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ReplyDeletegood write. I agree with you in the situations that everyone should lie like in wars we must lie to the enemy if they catch us.
I agree with you!
ReplyDeleteWe have to think about situation.
yes, I agree with you. lie or not to lie, it's depend on the situation.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! Although I think that we shouldn't lie, no matter what the situation, even as doctor!
ReplyDeleteIt is really depending on nature of the situation. Sometimes we have to lie although we know it's bad to. I'm really interested in your journal.
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