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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)

/^t/Most of the opponents of lying hold a strong belief that people have a right to know the truth even the worst and the most difficult one. They would seem to see no other alternative in this respect but to reject lying completely regardless of consequences. Since, according to them, only the truth can exist in the world they have condemned lying as immoral. All in all, no half-truth or sweet lies can ever be accepted. One may argue that their point of view remarkably resembles that of the puritans or the Roman Church from the era of the Holy Inquisition when the heresy was punished by death. However, in the world of reason and humanism nobody would seem eager to die for ideology. What really counts is a human being and their needs. Now that the truth has been devaluated we cannot look upon it as the only moral attitude. More and more often we resort to lying for the sake of a person we love and for their good. It may be concluded that it is not the ideas that people should take care of but rather other people.