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Would I lie


            It used to be that while we all did at least a little bit of lying, we all hated being .
             Deliberate lying has become an acceptable practice. .
             Supposedly, honorable people shamelessly defend it. Lying is an intentional .
             misrepresentation of reality as distinguished from the innocent fantasy common to those .
             whose notion of truth and falsehood has yet to develop clearly. Many would argue that a .
             "little white lie," never hurt anyone, but the truth is they do. "We have become .
             desensitized to the enormous significance of lying, the effects are all destructive, .
             generally lowering the level of trust in anything we read or hear," says Karen Peterson in .
             her essay "Would I lie to you?".
             In today's climate of dishonest politics and corrupt religious leaders, much of .
             society grows-up with a contempt for talk of "honesty." The same politicians, who .
             promote a return to traditional values, like honesty indicated for lying on their tax returns .
             or to a congressional investigation committee. These blatant forms of lying are .
             misleading campaign advertisements and partisan propaganda that are a common and .
             even integral part of politics the world over. A wide range of people in and around the .
             world believe that the obsessive search for wrongdoing in recent years has hurt the .
             political system. They contend that scandal politics has made public service less .
             attractive and distracted government and the public from more pressing issues. There .
             are certain things that a government should refrain from doing, one is to refrain from .
             transgressing moral values that are held around the world by every single person.
             We need an absolute adherence to moral principles, because if we try to .
             adapt moral law to suit our own conveniences, "we are sacrificing our own civilized .
             existence."(310 Morganthau) Social Morality is a subject at the intersection of religion .
             and science, one that can unite people from different disciplines.


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