Is lie good or bad?

All of us do lie in some parts or most parts of our life. Every people lie; in
other words, no one never tells lies in their life. Even the most respected person
worldwide sometimes lies. That is why I pick up this topic to analyze whether lie is
a good thing or bad one. Once again, is lie good or bad? Read on.
According to some facts, lie is considered to be bad, and most people hate
liars. On most of their points of view, they think that the people who lie are very
bad and irresponsible. Liar can be someone who did something wrong and lie in
order to avoid criticism or punishment. Some liars can make some certain
problems worse. For example, a person who works for a company provides false
information to the company in order to serve his or her own benefit. Through that
way, the company can seriously face bankruptcy and many people in the company
will lose their jobs and can even end up in deep poverty. Yes, a lot of people want
only honest people and not liars. Moreover, some liars can even pay big price for
their lie. Let’s take a well-known story for example. In a village, a cowboy who
really likes to lie one day ran down to the village and told the villagers that his
cows were being attacked by tigers. The villagers actually took this matter
seriously and after preparing weapons to fight the tigers, they set off together to the
cow field. To their anger, the cows were all O.K. and the cowboy started laughing
at them all for their belief. Only next time the tigers really came to attack the cows,
and when the boy went to ask the villagers for help, everyone ignored him. Some
thought that it was just his other foolish lie. For some other people who knew he
told the truth, they still didn’t care because they wanted to avenge him for his bad
lie. Eventually, the boy started crying and regretting what he had done. As you see
in this story, lie can be really bad, even for the liar himself.
On the contrary to all the things said above, lie can be a good thing in some
ways. Some people tell lie in order not to make someone feel bad. For instance, a
girl was actually not a good-looking girl, but when she asked her dad how she
looked, he, being her father, didn’t want to hurt his daughter’s feeling. So, he told
her that she looked beautiful, that she looked just fine. If he did that, even if the
girl knew herself that she wasn’t pretty, she still felt happy because of her dad’s
kind words to her. This lie is called a White Lie, and thoughtfully it is not very bad
at all. In life, sometimes lying is better than telling only the truth, just like a Khmer
proverb that says, “ផវូ្ វចកុំោោះបង់ផវូ្ ្្ង់កុំោើរើោោង” which means in English that we
shouldn’t abandon either the bad ways or the good ways of doing things. In some
cases, people don’t really like people who always tell the truth without minding
other people’s emotion.
 All these examples point out that LIE, in particular everything, has its own
advantages and disadvantages. The only question that matters now is, ‘Now that
you know it, what will you choose to be, a liar or a truth teller?’ In my opinion,
both are fine, so I choose to be both. When the time is right, I think I will know
who to choose. Anyway, I have some last words to tell you. Every single thing that
is too much or too little should not be accepted.