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Would you lie if your boss told you to lie?

I mean, it depends? Is there a good reason? How bad is the lie? Who am I lying to? Am I at risk of being fired if I don’t? Do I really need the job or not so much?

Why? Do you never ever lie?

I think generally it’s better to never lie outside of a few rare corner cases (mostly around avoiding violence).

Those corner cases have basically never come up in my life (stuff like the SS coming to your door and asking if you’re hiding Jews).

Most of the times people justify their own lying they’re wrong to do so imo.

Does your boss even tell you explicitly to lie or just to calm and reassure the user and pass the info down to someone else?

Would you lie to your boss about if, you lied or not, according to directions

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