Many people believe that it is important to always tell the truth. In your opinion, is it ever acceptable to tell a lie?Explain your answer giving reasons and specific examples.

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Many people believe that it is important to always tell the truth. In your opinion, is it ever acceptable to tell a lie?

Explain your answer giving reasons and specific examples.

Submitted by Jane jane on Wed, 01/08/2020 - 14:32

While many people claim that telling the truth is a positive action, others assert that truth is always bitter so there are cases in which the truth should be untold. From my perspective, I completely agree with the second opinion for several reasons which will be discussed below.

First of all, sometimes, being too honest and straightforward can cause problems and conflicts, which may harm one's psychological health or ruin a relationship. Therefore, a white lie is necessary when we want to be polite or to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. For instance, when a friend got a new haircut, or when our moms cook for us, and they asked for our opinion, it is definitely better to compliment them even if we highly dislike the haircut or the dish than telling the harsh reality and break their hearts.

Secondly, there are lies told for the purpose of benefiting others without harming anyone. These called kind-hearted lies, a lie with the good intention behind it. To illustrate, it is a common practice as the parents tell small lies to their children about how babies were born or about the existence of Santa Claus in order to protect their innocence and happiness. At the end of the day, it does not harm the kids as long as the parents let them know the truth when they are ready.

In conclusion, although people are taught at a young age that dishonesty is a bad thing, I believe that there are exceptions when lying might be a better move than telling the truth.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 41.998997996 55% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1223.0 1615.20841683 76% => OK
No of words: 259.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72200772201 5.12529762239 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58653832912 2.80592935109 92% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.629343629344 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 368.1 506.74238477 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.60771543086 87% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 16.0721442886 62% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.5912080834 49.4020404114 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.3 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.7 7.06120827912 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.178008831336 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651896187865 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611019764573 0.0667982634062 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118132282022 0.151304729494 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561609688512 0.056905535591 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 63.02 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 12.4159519038 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 78.4519038076 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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