White lies are beautiful. When we tell some little lies for the happiness and hope of others, lies become understanding, respect and tolerance, which has magical power.
Lies out of good wishes are the nourishment of life and the source of faith. It makes people ignite the fire of hope from their hearts and make sure that there is love, trust and emotion in the world.
White lies can make people find more reasons to laugh at life. White lies endow humanity with spirituality, reflect the delicacy of emotions and the maturity of thoughts, and urge people to be strong and persistent, to fight for it involuntarily, and finally to overcome their fragility and survive.
A lie from parents makes a child's face bloom like a flower; The teacher's lies make the wandering students no longer confused and grow better; The doctor's lies make the fearful patients move from destruction to rebirth ... White lies will not defile civilization, let alone distort human nature.
White lies have magical power, and encourage you to keep working hard again and again, and never give up for your dreams. Because the future road is completely illuminated by happy mood, life becomes better.
This kind of lie is not cheating, nor does it have ulterior motives. This kind of lie is understanding, respect, tolerance, magic and free from impurities.
Although lying has some disadvantages, talking is better than nothing. A lie from parents makes a child's face bloom like a flower; The teacher's lies make the wandering students no longer confused and grow better; The doctor's lies make the fearful patient move from destruction to rebirth. ...
A white lie goes against honesty.
Debate statement
Chairman, judges and debaters, hello!
Honesty has been advocated since ancient times. From Confucius, "People can't stand without faith." For Mencius, "sincerity is the way of heaven and the way of being human." From "Standing at the Door" by Shang Yang to the modern "Outline for the Implementation of Citizen Morality", honesty, namely sincerity, trustworthiness and truth-seeking are all reflected. I will discuss our views from the following aspects: white lies violate honesty.
First: cut open the phenomenon to see the essence. Explaining a lie in a dictionary is a distortion of the facts, not a real thing. The beautiful appearance of things can always confuse some people's eyes. We have been taught not to tell lies since childhood as teachers. Lying is not a good boy, but when we put a good coat on lies, it hits the weakness of human nature and makes some people begin to accept white lies. But can you get rid of the fact that beggars wear cheongsam? Therefore, a white lie is still a lie, which violates seeking truth. Therefore, we believe that white lies violate honesty. You can use The Emperor's New Clothes to explain this argument concisely.
Second: ask the other party to be more rational and less emotional. The other party insists that telling white lies does not violate honesty. Is there too much emotion? It is an indisputable fact that adding the word goodwill in front of a lie takes it for granted that it is no longer a lie, and its motive is goodwill. I don't know that goodwill itself has certain uncertainty, so it is repeatedly used by some "professional scammers". So please open your rational eyes and look at the real problems of white lies! Don't "don't know the true face of a lie, just because you are kind!" " Ah! "
Thirdly, under the social background of contemporary China, what is the new connotation of honesty?
First of all, since the fundamental spirit of honesty is truth and innocence, people are required to respect objective laws and establish a realistic spirit. In the face of honesty, all insincerity and deception will be mercilessly exposed and criticized.
Secondly, as a value concept, honesty has the characteristics of fairness. It requires social groups to establish a fair and reasonable system, and requires every member of society to establish a fair attitude and selfless moral concept.
Thirdly, the humanistic spirit contained in honesty requires people to consciously abide by the law, be sincere and trustworthy, and establish values and ethics that are compatible with the market economic system and the society ruled by law. Harmony can not be established with white lies, but it is the embodiment of sincerity between people!
Finally, I want to tell another debater that a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf after all! Therefore, we have always believed that white lies are against integrity.
Independent variables (2 independent variables): Scheme 1:
1: You have been talking about kindness. Are you a kind person?
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2. Do you think you are good and others will think you are good?
This needs everyone's evaluation! ! !
3. Yes, it needs public evaluation. Doesn't this explain the uncertainty of goodwill standard? Let's change the subject. What is your understanding of lies?
Lies are divided into white lies and malicious lies. What we are going to discuss today is a white lie!
4. The other debater said it well. Since you attribute a white lie to a lie, can you say that a white lie is not a lie?
There is an essential difference between a white lie and a lie, which is no longer an understanding of the lie itself!
Do you think adding the adjective "goodwill" before a lie becomes the truth? According to the logic of the other defense friend, why not call it the truth of goodwill, the truth of goodwill?
Goodwill is considering human nature and the situation of the parties! It is the perfect embodiment of morality!
6: Is it immoral for me to tell the truth euphemistically? You have been emphasizing that white lies have changed qualitatively, but you can't prove them, and you haven't strongly refuted our white lies or lies. Isn't this a contradiction? I hope you can give us and everyone a good explanation in the next debate! thank you
I think, because there is no essential difference between white lies and malicious lies, lies are unnecessary after all. Here, I warn those who use white lies as a protective shield, "Please get rid of this hypocritical makeup" lie "as soon as possible. It is called a "lie" because it is false, untrue and deceptive. If a person often lies in his mouth to deceive others, he will lose people's trust over time. Just like the children in "Lying Children", they cry "Wolf" every day, seeking excitement and happiness. When the wolf does come, he has to face it alone and bear it alone. No matter how much he shouts, it won't help, and no one will come to help him again. Because people who might come to help him are used to his yelling and think that he is "teasing you" again. It can be seen that lies hinder honesty.
But today we say "lies", and there is another attribute-goodwill. After adding this qualifier, the nature of lies has changed fundamentally. "White lies" are people's good wishes for things, a dialogue between people's kind hearts, the warmth of people comforting each other, and the tenderness revealed in people's hearts ... No one will investigate its credibility. People who hear a white lie will try to believe it even if they know it is a lie, and will not feel the hypocrisy of the liar, and sometimes they will be grateful from the heart.
When a terminally ill patient is sentenced to death by a doctor, his parents, lover, children and all relatives will not directly tell him, "Life is hopeless" and "How long can I live in this world at most". Although all this is true, who will tell the truth to their already miserable relatives as cruelly as a judge sentenced a prisoner to death? At this time, everyone will form a United front, keep silent about the truth, and use white lies to make patients full of hope for treatment and let patients spend the rest of their lives with peace of mind. Does this hinder honesty?
When a dead child suddenly encounters misfortune and loses his loved ones, how can he explain to him where his loved ones have gone? We think the best way is: don't tell him the real situation for the time being, just say to go on a business trip in a distant place or study abroad. When the child is sensible and has a certain tolerance, he will tell the truth, and the child will understand the practices of his loved ones and will not be angry because he did not know the truth earlier. Don't such words also hinder the integrity!
How I wish I could see my son for the last time when his mother was terminally ill and dying. However, my son can't come back, and he can't do a little filial piety for his old mother and take care of the mother who once broke his heart for his son. He regrets and misses it. The old mother understands her son very well and tells her relatives around her not to tell her distant son after she leaves and not to distract him. She should say that her condition is stable, reassure him and do her best for the country. Don't interfere with honesty with such white lies!
Therefore, I insist that white lies not only do not hinder honesty, but also greatly enhance the friendship and feelings between people and have an indelible effect on social stability. I suggest that you use white lies when you should, and there is not much serious conflict with honesty.
We know that people live in this society and bear many obligations, and sometimes there are contradictions between them. When one obligation overrides another, it is necessary to alleviate the other. Therefore, the essence of white lies is a more urgent and important obligation, and this obligation is at the expense of reducing the obligation of good faith.
A long time ago, a philosopher in the west once said: There are only two things in this world that can deeply shake people's hearts: one is the splendid starry sky above us, and the other is the lofty moral principle in our hearts-honesty. Obviously, nothing is more beautiful and pure than spiritual beauty, and honesty is only one of the manifestations of inner beauty. I think it is not difficult for other students to see that since it is a lie, it will hinder honesty, and its utility and benefits will eventually be at the expense of honesty.
Here I want to ask other students, when a person loses integrity, is his starting point still good?
Please note that the theme of our debate today is whether white lies hinder honesty, not whether lies hinder honesty.
First of all, if the Modern Chinese Dictionary explains that "lies" are untrue, it obviously has a neutral emotional color. Lying for different purposes will lead to very different results: one is to cheat by cunning and treacherous means for the purpose of harming others and benefiting themselves, which is malicious fraud and will inevitably lead to the decline of social morality and disorder of order. The other is to hide the truth for the benefit of others. It is a kind of concealment, which will make feelings more harmonious and society more harmonious. Therefore, good faith concealment and malicious fraud are very different from motivation to result, and cannot be confused. When the poor mother left the only meal for her child and concealed the fact that the child was still starving, do you still accuse the kind and noble maternal love of being "dishonest"?
Second, what is "sincerity"? Honest and trustworthy. The ancients advocated "sincerity" and "faith" long ago, emphasizing the consistency of words and deeds and the unity of knowledge and action; The principle of good faith requires people to consciously abide by the law and be sincere and trustworthy. But none of them simply ask people to tell the truth 100%. It is extremely terrible to tell the truth regardless of the situation: can we tell our military information to the enemy during the war? Can you tell your business secrets to your competitors in the mall? Therefore, since the principle of good faith is not equal to the simplified 100% truth, the good faith concealment when necessary will not conflict with the principle of good faith.
Thirdly, white lies, as a correct and friendly way of dealing with the world, are consistent with "honesty" in motivation, purpose and result. The significance of promoting honesty in society lies in cultivating people's noble moral sentiments and establishing mutual trust and mutual benefit among people, and those white lies full of goodwill and compassion are used to make feelings more harmonious, life more warm and society more harmonious. "The way of a university stops at perfection", and out of the same goodwill, the two are closely unified. To sum up, reiterate our views:
First, lies can be divided into malicious fraud and good faith concealment according to their essential differences, and the two cannot be confused.
Second, "honesty" does not mean that 100% is true without specific analysis. In some cases, it is essential to conceal in good faith.
Third, white lies conform to the principle of good faith from purpose to result.
Therefore, we believe that white lies do not hinder honesty.