Q. …….. most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth.
Even the most truthful people probably tell a good many more lies that might be regarded as semantic lies; their use of words contains some measure of falsehood, more or less deliberate.
Q 1. The idea which the first part of the passage mentions is
(a) agreement about telling lies.
(b) disagreement about telling lies.
(c) disagreement about telling the truth.
(d) disagreement about the harm in telling the truth.
Q 2. Which one of the following habits is found more often in good people?
(a) Mixing up the true and false
(b) Intentional mixing up of truth with the false.
(c) Falsification of facts
(d) Complete concealment of truth
Question from UPSC Prelims 2021 CSAT Paper
Explanation :
Q1: Correct Answer – (d) disagreement about the harm in telling the truth.
Explanation – The first part of the passage mentions that most people would agree that telling deliberate lies is wrong, except perhaps in certain special situations where more harm will be done by telling the truth. This means that there may be some disagreement about the harm in telling the truth in certain special situations. So option (d) disagreement about the harm in telling the truth is correct. Official Answer is also D
Q2: Correct Answer – (b) Intentional mixing up of truth with the false.
Explanation – The second half of the passage mentions that good people often tell lies which contains some kind of truth.
Hence there is an intentional mix up of truth and false.