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Honesty is the best policy. To what extent do you agree or disagree with it?

#honesty #policy
There is no doubt that honesty is one of the most important skills for humans.
However
, I believe that honesty is not always a good choice to communicate, so lie can be useful as well. In fact, I feel
this
 way for two reasons that I will explore in the following essay.
To begin
 with,
a
Suggestion
an
 honest behaviour is necessary for kids. One should note here that students try to withhold their bad marks from parents very often. I am sure that dishonesty has a detrimental effect in
this
 situation, so parents, kids and teachers suffer from it. To be more specific, parents are not
awared
(sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
aware
 about possible problems in school, so youngsters are not able to solve problems with studying and teachers can’t understand the reasons of
such
 behaviour.
As a result
, if children
be
Suggestion
are
are being
 honest with their relatives and tutors, they would receive some support from the side in order to overcome obstacles in their life.
On the other hand
, white-lie is able to provide some benefits for people. It is a well-known fact that family members always care about each other, so from time to
time some individuals
Suggestion
time, some individuals
 may be very anxious about their sons and daughters. Basically, there
is
Suggestion
are
 a huge number of reasons for
this
 behaviour, but some of them can be solved by telling a lie.
For instance
, young adults can not to tell about minor problems that happened with them in order not to disturb parents or friends.
Therefore
, it will be beneficial for everyone, because individuals will be more confident and determined in solving problems and immediate families will not get additional stress from bad news. To draw the conclusion, because of the reasons above, I am of the opinion that while-lie is quite useful in some situations as well as honesty in other cases.

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