What if you're a part of a Witness Protection Program? There you would have to lie all the time about who you really are, your real name, where you come from, etc. If you didn't do that the criminals could find you, come after you and kill you and your family.
And also if you were dead then you could no longer go to court and testify and put the criminals who are on trial out of business!
Anyways I put on this thread because I was reading Erin's blog about living an honest life, and it said that if someone wanted to comment on the blog to click *here*, so I did and wrote into the box that came up. I didn't realize it was a new thread, I thought it was an existing thread dealing specifically with this particular blog. Sorry if I got some people confused wondering what the **** is this thread all about!
Anyways I personally believe that sometimes it's alright to lie. I think it's okay to lie when lying will serve a greater good. For example you could save someone's life by lying. Maybe a criminal is looking for an innocent person to kill that person, and you are sheltering that person in your house, and you meet up with the criminal and he/she asks you if you are sheltering the innocent person in your house.
Or as in the case of the Witness Protection Program I just gave up above.
Or another example, I once read where a woman was in a concentration camp and she saved the lives of many of her fellow inmates by lying to the Nazi officers, stealing bread, etc.