Credibility Of Lying

In every living being we are given the ability to lie when something happens to us or other actions that fall upon us. This ability can be useful when something unexpected happens and theres is no choice but to lie. However, lying to cover up something that is harmful or important can have it's own consequences for that action alone. There have been many debates over whether or not lying is a justifiable action to take when something comes up. Some argue that lying is wrong action to take because it's just prolonging the mistake that was made. While others believe that it is acceptable if it’s in the right circumstance to use. I believe that lying is acceptable because the things we do are own consequences and we have to keep it as are own …show more content…
By losing that credibility of who you are, you can destroy your image. This is what happens when someone lose the credibility of their image, "A simple investigation into his past revealed a crowded graveyard of disenchanted former friends."(Ericsson 473). This is the best representation of what happens to a person when their image of who they are is revealed and now they know the truth. They lose people around that they consider friends because they don't want to stick by with a friend that constantly lies to them about who they are all the time. Another reason how they loose credibility is by losing the honesty of who they are by lying. This is what happens when a person's honesty is nothing more than a lie, “Yet for twenty years this family kept their hopes alive, unable to move on to a new life."(Ericsson 473). This shows what happens to people when their honesty is a lie, they give people false hope about important things. Rather than being truthful, they decide to hide it, damaging their creditability that they built up, only to be shattered by the lie that was told over …show more content…
By doing that it leaves a very horrible dent on the person's conscious. Just like how a catholic church in Massachusetts lost the trust of the people when Father Porter molested children, even though he was "cured”, "More children were abused until he was relieved of his duties a year later."(Ericsson 474). This illustrates how the church in Massachusetts lost the trust of the people when they lied about the father being "cured" of his problem. Many children were molested and because of that the people who hired that priest now have that on their conscious because the lie they told about him being cured lead to many children being scarred for life and many parents trust. Another example of trust being abandoned is when they lied about something with more lies like how the church lied about the other woman before Eve in the Garden of Eden. However, this is what they replied "…demonization by ancient misogynist as an embodiment of the female evil…"(Ericsson 475). This statement states that woman the came before Eve was evil and they refused to except the truth about her. By doing that it leads other women to seek the truth about it, in which they find out it was a ploy to keep women in a weaken state. Thus loosing the church's trust over the women populous about that lead them to rebel in