When is a lie justifiable?

 Last week commenced our Language Arts lessons and it had already been generating lots of thoughts and ideas well into its second lesson. So anyway,last Thursday, we were discussing a short excerpt from a movie called Big Fish. Big Fish is a film, that was adapted from the novel similarly named which was written by author Daniel Wallace in 1998. The film was directed by director Tim Burton,who had directed many films which includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the much talked about Alice in Wonderland.Big Fish is about a son(Will Bloom),whose relationship with his father(Edward Bloom)a salesman with a great passion for telling stories had became strained,,due to him can't standing his father's countless tell-tales .As his father nears death,Will recalls the stories that his father had told him and finally discovers how much of a great man Edward had been in real life.
  So it was thanks to Shuin Kang who raised the hot topic of the day.When is a lie justifiable?While most people seem to have the impression that there are two kinds of lies,white lies(A.K.A "good lies") and "bad" lies,I have another point of view.There are 3 kinds of lies,the first kind obviously being the "bad lies",the ones that do only you personal harm but not for others,such as saying our sister broke the vase when you really broke it.Then there is the "white lies",which in which lies the catch.There are two kinds of "white lies",one is the harmful ones,that are actually said with evil intent or having a negative outcome if found out.Only the second can be justifiable,the "good lies",which have no evil intent and no negative outcome,which means that if found out, doesn't cause anyone physical or emotional damage.However,these are rare and I've seen few cases like this.Ultimately,these kinds of lies are real hard to come by and the best thing to do sometimes is to tell the truth rather than letting it go and causing much unnecessary heartbreak and pain much later.
  Also,we were discussing about whether if we were Will  Bloom,would we have forgiven our father for lying to us?Our L.A teacher even raised a an example about a fake australian POW(Prisoner Of War) who posed as one and eventually becamenational president of the Ex-PoW Association of Australia, vice president of the Queensland branch and treasurer of a PoW's reunion group.when he never ever spent one moment behind bars.For more on this story,go to these URLs:

1. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/fake-pow-arthur-rex-crane-jailed-for-welfare-fraud/story-e6frf7l6-1225974534568
2. http://admpreview.straitstimes.com:90/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=9ddf6e132b31d210VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=1690758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD

All these comes boiling down to one question,will you forgive them, if they were your father or grandfather?Is their sin a giant crime or something else?If you try to put yourself in their shoes for a moment,you may then finally realise that perhaps all they wanted in the first place was to be a hero,in perhaps your heart,in their child's heart?In the australian's case it was perhaps just a case of greed,but in Edward Bloom's case,perhaps that was all he wanted,to be a hero in his son's heart.Also,is it not true that blood is thicker than water?We are perhaps "obliged"to forgive our kin more easily than others,not perhaps for a big crime,but certainly a small lie told just to try to get us closer.
  What do you think?Hope to see your opinion on this.For now,that's all folks!