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Post by horsewoman on Jun 26, 2006 13:15:38 GMT -5
In one one these posts, which I cannot find right now...someone had used the phrase..."Lies of omission." I am a little bit unsure of the meaning of this. A friend once told me that it is ok to hold some things back, and I would not be lying. There have also beentimes which I have been fearful of disclosing facts or feelings that Ive had. Would someone please explain those differences? Maybe this isnt the board for this question, but I really want to know.
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Post by ilylo on Jun 26, 2006 13:30:06 GMT -5
A lie of omission is to remain silent when ethical behavior calls for one to speak up. A lie of omission is a method of deception and duplicity that uses the technique of simply remaining silent when speaking the truth would significantly alter the other person's capacity to make an informed decision. Source: www.choice101.com/19-lies.html
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Post by fyi on Jun 26, 2006 13:34:37 GMT -5
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Post by lilwolfmisty on Jun 26, 2006 14:32:55 GMT -5
Like lylo said it is really a matter of ethics. No one has the right to know our every thought except God. So when we decide to hold some details back about certain situations it is not unethical. It would become unethical if we held back information that was verafiable that would end up having someone get hurt. For example: Holding back information would be useful when Aunt Edna asks us does this dress make me look fat, we might say something like, the color is really good, and if you don't wear the belt it would compliment your shape more ( but in our mind we might be thinking the fat cow she wouldn't look good in anything and the purple makes her look like an overripe grape) A lie of omission would be when she asks us we notice that she has a huge rip in the back and her underware is showing so we don't tell her and we let her go out like that and she gets embarassed beyond belief because we didn't say anything.
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Post by yeah but on Jun 26, 2006 14:52:22 GMT -5
Like lylo said it is really a matter of ethics. No one has the right to know our every thought except God. So when we decide to hold some details back about certain situations it is not unethical. It would become unethical if we held back information that was verafiable that would end up having someone get hurt. For example: Holding back information would be useful when Aunt Edna asks us does this dress make me look fat, we might say something like, the color is really good, and if you don't wear the belt it would compliment your shape more ( but in our mind we might be thinking the fat cow she wouldn't look good in anything and the purple makes her look like an overripe grape) A lie of omission would be when she asks us we notice that she has a huge rip in the back and her underware is showing so we don't tell her and we let her go out like that and she gets embarassed beyond belief because we didn't say anything. the degrees of "hurt" complicate this... I learned about William Irvine from someone at work of all places and asked the brother worker in our part about it - something like........ "I know a man who says our religion sounds like one hes heard of called Truth that was started by William Irvine. Do you know anything about this?" ......to which he said back something like......... "worldy people get caught up in who thier founder is but we don't have to worry about that - Jesus is our founder" this crushed me - this is a lie of ommission IMHO, and it hurt me far more than real honesty would have lies of ommision may be useful and ok in some cases but it is overused by way to many espeically in defending this religion
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