Is lying the correct thing to do in the right case scenario?
Picture this, your sitting in your classroom. The teacher is standing up in front
of you delivering this elaborate speech on The War of Roses. He continues on
and on and on and on about how this war took place in a garden. You being the intelligent
student believe this stronger figure telling you absolute nonsense. Why?
Because someone with a higher position of authority told you so. At the end of
the day, it’s you walking out to that playground ready to beat up those kids
that do know that the War of the Roses actually took place in England.
We as humans need to educated the youth. Society is not the
elusive “flower beds and white picket fences” (Collins). No, no. Society is
ruled by how we interact with one another. By educating kids with the facts
rather than some sly lie, we can reduce the amount of disasters. Disasters? It’s
the simple ones. Waking up in the morning and greeting your friends rather than
pushing everyone away. Picking trash off the streets, helping the small ducks cross
the road, thanking your waiter for bring your food. Its those random acts of
kindness that saves society from turning into a freezer. Cold. Dark.
Lying will never lift you five feet up, it will only drag
you 10 feet down.
I like the way you thought about this! It doesn't seem like much to stretch the truth a little bit about something that seems inconsequential, but it adds up, and we find ourselves surrounded in lies. But on the other hand,it adds up the other way, too, like when those little acts of kindness combine to make the world a better place to be.
ReplyDeleteI like that this blog actually made me laugh out loud, which isn't something you'd expect to do when reading graded blogs in an AP English class. And I completely agree with you that it's much better to teach students the hardships that our world has faced so that they don't go out and make the same mistakes themselves.
ReplyDeleteI love the drama of detaching that last sentence from the rest of the post! Your post was very entertaining to read and I wholeheartedly agree with your claim. I think it’s really interesting how much of what we “learn” is actually wrong, but we believed it because someone in a higher power told us it was true.
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