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Secondly, a white lie can even save people’s life! Seems ridiculous, right? Actually, that is real. Consider the scenario in which your moral obligation to protect life is pitted against your moral obligation to tell the truth. Protecting life is the weightier moral imperative of the two, and thus lying to protect that life would be the right thing to do. Consider this example: In the World War II, two Nazi soldiers arrested a group of Jews trying to escape from the region that the Nazi colonized. However, they don’t want to give those Jews to their higher command because the Jews will be killed immediately. As a result, they hide the Jews in a small, uncultivated house near the hill that the higher command cannot detect and report that they didn’t see any Jews. This also often happened in the American Civil War (1861 – 1865) when the Confederacy army soldiers hide the black slaves that they arrested.

Finally, a white lie of the doctor can help the patient more optimistic and can recover fast. This is a real case: A doctor is treating for a cancer patient. The doctor knows that the cancer is untreatable and the patient only have one month left to live. However the doctor decides to say a white lie: “Your cancer is difficult to treat. But it is still curable. You must spend a lot of times with your family, having good, healthy diet, read and watch lots of comedies and laugh a lot. You also shouldn’t think weary and pessimistic and also usually let your brain to rest. Remember my sayings? Hope that you will recover!” So the patient is really optimistic about his living chance. After three weeks, amazingly, he recovered and can live for ten years more. That is how a white lie helpful.

To sum up, to be honest is very good and is essential in a lot of cases. However, in some cases, telling a white lie is fine and necessary. However, after telling a white lie, in a suitable time, you should tell the truth in order to maintain relation and cooperative. I agree with the statement of the topic and think that it’s fine to tell a white lie sometime.