Is Lying Ever Justifiable?

[Rhondazvous]

I was in Washington, D.C. headed toward Georgetown with my cousin Miraculous (that’s his name on his birth certificate). He was on his cell with his mother. She wanted to lift his bedridden father out of the wheelchair back into his bed, but Miraculous told her not to because we were right around the corner and he was coming to do it. After hanging up he leaned over and told me that we were actually 45 minutes away, but if he’d told his mother that, she would have tried to lift his father herself and possibly hurt herself.

I thought about it then I asked him what I should do when a man is lying and I know he’s lying but it’s for a good cause.
Miraculous: Let him lie. If it’s for a good cause. But if it’s not for a good cause, tell him he should start telling the truth because he’s a terrible liar. It’s not working for him.

I thought about it some more and suggested that if more women listened to their male cousins there might be less divorce. He agreed.

So we went back to his house and he put his father back in bed. Then we headed back towards Georgetown. Presently, he leaned over and told me we were almost there.
Me: Yeah, right, sure, uh hum. Tell me anything.