Telling lies with integrity

Whether the ability to lie is a bad thing is a hard thing to put a yes or no answer to. It's not so much a black and white category subject like some of the others discussed in the Being Bad topic because there seem to be everyday uses and occasions where it is right to lie.
There are a number of categories that lies can be broken up into; one is the "white lie", possibly the most popular and most frequent lie told every day. When your wife or girlfriend asks you if she looks nice in her outfit, if it makes her look fat or not, if she needs to diet you say "No, you're just fine, you don't need to loose weight, I love that outfit!"
Yet what you're actually thinking is that she needs to lay off the chow and buy some bigger clothes. But you would be right to lie to save her feelings (and an enormous row). There are others of course, things you'd say to save feelings, to stay in a job, to seem interested, more interesting or just to save face or argument.
Then of course there are the more serious lies, lies that get others into trouble, those that pass the blame and those that just straight out deny the truth of your actions. These lies are the lies that sit well in the module, the very backbone of what it is to be truly bad. Because behind every single aspect of this module there lies a lie.
To answer a question that came up earlier in the module, I do not think that if everybody always told the truth then the world would not be a better place. If friends could not lie to each other there would be no friendship left, if men and women could not lie about looking at other men or women there would be no relationship, if nations could not lie to each other then there would be war because there would be no secrets between them and everyone would be in danger. Lies are told by governments all the time, yes sometimes it damages us but most of the time it keeps us safe. Ignorance is bliss.
To conclude I feel that there are two kinds of lying; the white lie and the bad lie. But when it all comes down to it I think that it is only the latter of the two that really classifies as "being bad"