Socrates thinks this is bad because children will grow up believing that these tales were true, when their parents actually are “lying to them in their speech”.My feelings towards lying are very close to the way Socrates feels. I hold some high values in the area of lying. I think Socrates makes some strong points here and I definitely agree with his standards and morals that he presents. With the true lie, I feel you are lying to yourself because you know the truth. There is one case I don’t agree with Socrates on, and that would be for the sake of a person’s life. If the situation were so extreme that someone needs to lie to save a life, I would agree to that. An example of doing something like this would be a hostage situation. The negotiators do what they can in their power when this is someone that is not a guardian to get the hostages free and to end the situation with any harm to anyone. There are trust factors involved there, but sometimes it is necessary to lie I that field. If it is not to the extreme then I think it is just completely ludicrous for someone to lie, with them knowing the truth. I was brought up in a way where you tell the truth no matter what the situation is. Like the saying goes “Honesty is the best policy”.The lie in speech, it is ridiculous because if you do not know the truth, be honest and say you don’t know the truth. Socrates was right, why waste your time and effort to make up such a story where people in the future may believe what you tell them about the past. For example, if someone had made up everything in “The Republic of Plato” just to be able to tell someone something, philosophy could be based on a lie. So we may not even know if philosophy exists. It could be a made up lie from one person not knowing the truth and making a story up to look good in front of others....
