Not all lies are harmful

One is not obligated to aggressively say that one does not like someone or to be cruel or harsh, but one does have an obligation to the truth in so far as one believes that one sees it. The last state of a liar is worse than the first. Lies can also help protect other people, like say  you have a friend that's ugly and looks gay and she ate her boyfriend[because she happened to eat her boyfriend for some reason] but she's really friendly and nice and u love her family and they love you back and you guys are like best friends and she's like the nicest friend u had and you wouldn’t have lived without her because she saved your life from falling off a cliff or from getting shot[for some reason I don’t know how she can save you but like just imagine]. if you had the urge to be extremely honest and say she's ugly and looks gay and u told other people she ate her boyfriend, then she'd be really sad and u'd lose a friend that helped you live longer and ya know there aren’t good friends like that give up their time from being a star in this new show called Ugly Ashley to save your life from a dangerous cliff.

so yes lies can help a society, keep your friends, and other things. but don't lie too much! because remember, too much of something isn't good. Although I have not been able to keep to this high standard, I have come to believe that it is, in fact, always bad to lie. Most forms of misleading are done for some advantage or from a lack of moral courage. The advantages are usually superficial and the harm profound.

Sometimes one greets in the street or at work someone whom one does not like, "Hi, Tracy, good to see you!" This is a bad thing to do, morally confusing to the Tracy and to oneself. Other lies wind up doing harm to the person lied to and the liar as well, and these internal consequences usually are harder to root out and deal with than the truth.