There are times when it is acceptable not to tell the truth.
Being honest, frank, and direct in dealing with things can be considered good most of the time. In fact, some people believe that it is better to always tell the truth regardless of the situation. However, in my opinion, there are certain times when it is perfectly reasonable not to tell the truth. I feel this way for several reasons which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, one doesn't have to look too far to realize the situation in which someone's safety is on the line. I believe that a lie told to protect an innocent person is acceptable. Perhaps the lie is told for some good cause. For instance, take an example when two of your friends or colleagues have been in a verbal dispute. Now, you may have talked to both of them and listened to the things about the other person that might be offensive. In such cases, it is fine or rather a good judgment not to tell them about the acerbic comments they passed on to each other. If such minor disputes can be avoided by telling a white lie, it is viable to do so. Sometimes concealing the truth becomes necessary for our own good. Take, for example, one of your friends asks you about their new hairstyle, or a dress maybe. Now, you may think that it looks awful. However, it is better for you to say it looks amazing if you know that telling that truth may ruin your relations with the person.
Secondly, government officials cannot always be frank with the general populace. For example, when there are riots happening in some part of the country, the government may decide to cut the internet and other media channels in that area to prevent the news from spreading to other parts of the nation. Moreover, consider a situation of war. Government officials and agencies will most likely choose to keep their defense strategies and weapons secret. Being so honest in this case may lead to the leak of some important information to the rival country. The nation may choose not to disclose the sites where the nuclear warheads are stored. Terrorist organizations may get their hands on such data if made open to the public, and one can only imagine the consequences that the world would have to face then.
Some may argue that being truthful and honest may have some short-term disadvantages, but always leads to long-term benefits. Admittedly, there are many more cases comparatively where one will have to be honest to avoid getting caught in a chain of lies later on. However, considering the scenarios I have discussed above, it is actually good to deliberately hide the truth sometimes for the better good of everyone involved.
To sum up, it is indefensible to say that one has to tell the truth no matter what the situation is. Keeping in mind the cases I have presented, one can easily fathom the fact that a lie spoken to avoid disputes and have mental peace is not so bad after all.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: doesn't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, after all, as to, for example, for instance, i feel, in fact, you know, in my opinion, to begin with, to sum up, to tell the truth
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2365.0 1977.66487455 120% => OK
No of words: 513.0 407.700716846 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61013645224 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46102271629 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 212.727598566 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508771929825 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 744.3 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0850946714 48.9658058833 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.5925925926 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.66666666667 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168083466287 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0497830883688 0.076458572812 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085868454896 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112326364167 0.150856017488 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0956825000683 0.0645574589148 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 11.7677419355 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 10.9000537634 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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