tell the truth or not As everyone would agree, honesty is a ethics embraced by human beings. In the process of growing, children are always educated to tell the truth. However,I disagree that telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people.My reasons are as following. First reason is that sometimes,telling a lie can avoid many trouble. For example,last week my boyfriend and I went to hiking on workday. When sharing the travel photos with his coworkers, one of his coworkers, assumed to have no relationship with me at all, questioned him if I asked for a leave to go out or not. Then my boyfriend answered "yes".But actually I just quit the previous job and is looking for the next one.Some people may blame him on telling a lie, but try to consider if he talked truth, it is very likely that he will need to explain more about my career, as Taiwanese people usually show their concern about others by asking many private questions. Secondly, in some occasion, telling a truth at first is not a good choice. For instance, there is a serious accident, your friend lose all his beloved ones overnight, and he himself is also hurt a lot and hospitalized for a long time. After he regain his consciousness but still weak ,is it really adequate to tell him that all his family already left him alone? There is a Chinese saying called " graceful lie" means the speaker is not vicious, but stand to the other's stands that he or she chooses to tell a lie temporarily. There are always different events in our lives, we should take different cases into consideration and think that "Will telling a truth on that moment be harmful or beneficial to anyone?" Therefore,I do not agree that everyone should put the truth-telling on the first priority and ignore other assumptions when interacting with people.