What is the difference between keeping a secret and telling a lie

This is sort of like a banking investment firm omitting truths or facts in a financial statement to either abscond with monies made by keeping a secret or to artificially inflate the stock of their own company in order to make their investors rich not to mention themselves until the secret is discovered by a audit.

Georgina Hall answered. A lie is that when it is brought up, you make up an excuse that is untrue, or you bring the subject up yourself. A secret is when the subject is brought up, you dismiss it, and you don't bring it up yourself.

Ever heard of a white lie? Philip Yao answered. Keeping a secret is not telling the thing. Lieing is telling an unreal answer. Keeping a secret is like knowing about a favorite gift,or whatever someone tells you about. Telling a lie is like hiding the exact truth of something.

Lie means speaking but the wrong thing or you can also tell cheating but keeping a secret is not telling the thing in this you don't cheat anyone. Miranda Sareen answered. Well telling a lie is instead of keeping it to yourself like a secret you tell someone something that isn't true instead of saying the truth and a secret is keeping something to yourself and not telling anyone anything. So, it's not the same thing really. I have done both of these plenty of times though. Karen answered.

Excellent question!! I have been using lies and secrets forever in teaching my daughter about morals. Yes, Madmacstew, you can lie without talking The government does it also. So keeping a secret and lieing is the same thing when asked directly about the secret or when an event is implied to be one way and actually occurred in another manner.

Sarah answered. Wow I never knew tht was hard to explain but now I can't even explain this but I no what the difference is. Eunice Kwarteng answered. Telling a lie is not telling the truth and keeping a secrect is not saying what you noe about something!!! Stewart Pinkerton answered. You don't have to say anything to keep a secret, but you do to tell a lie. Witholding information is not the same as giving disinformation, although both may get you in trouble if giving evidence in court!

Jerry Cccc answered. Heres my take on the two. I feel keeping a secret , or telling a lie, CAN directly correlate with each other. The 1st being worse then the 2nd. Though I suggest it all depends on the secret.

Thats kind of a nice secret. But then the other spectrum. I cheated on my wife. It falls hand in hand with lieing. Not telling that secret is worse then lieing in my oppnion. As this goes for a relationship? No Secrets, No Lies. Otherwise, your relationship is doomed for disaster. But some secrets can be very nice in the short run. We can't relax as much, and we can't feel as close or intimate with people whom we know we're lying to.

Brenner: Lying separates us—and that's okay. There are plenty of people in our lives whom we want to be separate from. And there are even times when we have good reason to want to be a little separate from the people we're closest to.

The bad part is if it starts to isolate us, leaving us feeling cut off when we don't want to be. A question I would ask is, "How do you use lying and keeping secrets in your life? There you have it: The experts have spoken, and it seems the truth about lying is that it's pretty complicated. A through-line from the advice? Be thoughtful and mindful. If you can live with your plan of action and how it may affect others involved, that's key.

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But later on in the pop-culture continuum, by the time you venture into the complex world of CW teen dramas, thoughts on deception get a bit murkier. The new vibe on lying becomes, "It's so wrong, but oh so right.