Should One Lie? Like every other yes or no question a person can only provide one answer, that is, either yes or no. NO Plenty people would probably rush in and say NO, one should never lie. They may say, ‘it is bad.’ Many of the people who say this actually do not mean it to the bone. They just do not want to be seen as immoral. They are trying to protect their fictional pride brought about by their fictional importance to society. There are two major reasons why people say that one should never lie, they are: 1. Moral reason : Many people view lying as an immoral act. But ‘morals’ is a flexible variable subject to location. What is immoral in one place may be moral in another. For example, in Nigeria and some other countries having pre-marital sex is considered an immoral act, although even the people who condemn others, do/did it themselves while in the United States of America and some other countries, pre-marital sex is encouraged by doctors