Summary and Background
Lies have three elementary features. First, they communicate given information. Second, they are geared towards misleading or deceiving. Lastly, the liar is convinced that the information he or she is communicating is not wholly truthful. Almost every society teaches its young integrity and honesty, which are ethical values. Ideally, everyone should be truthful. Even then, in reality, there are many cases where the truth frequently gets nuanced. At times, lying appears to many as the more suitable response to given conflicts. Many people are forced to lie to avoid hurting or offending other persons’ feelings. The morality or otherwise of lying is the question that this paper pursues with regard to the “Three Cups of Tea: Mismanagement or Fraud?” case study. …show more content…
In the book, various escapades of Mortenson as a mountaineer are described. In the book, various untrue accounts are given, presenting Mortenson as having faced numerous overwhelming difficulties in his efforts to get adequate funding to put up at over 50 schools in a poverty-stricken region held by Taliban terrorists. The difficulties are described in the book as including Islamic mullah threats, long-drawn separation from own family, and being kidnapped (Mortenson & Relin, 2006). In a “60 Minutes” broadcast, CBS asserts the accounts given in the book, which are aimed at attracting the adequate funding, are