The way I see this point is the following. I once saw a TV show in which the teacher set out to trick the students. He started by asking "How many do you think lying is wrong" and all the students raised their hand. He then said "you see your best friend in the hallway with a new hairstyle that looks awful, she asks you how does she look, how do you respond?" One of the students says "tell her she looks fine", and then the teacher goes off on some diatribe about nothing is black and white, everything is gray.
I was really disappointed in that scene. Think about it, by lying to protect your friends feelings, you have set her up for ridicule. Instead, if you had told the truth, in as nice a way as possible of course, she might have been able to do something to prevent the ridicule. Granted, ridiculing someone about their hairstyle is stupid, but do you see the point?
Am I making a point?
Who knows?
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
