It's a simple poll with 3 options.
Answer what is most in line with your thoughts, and add any condition or exception to the conversation.
My basic assumption is that lying should be a crime, so I will vote "yes", but I think there can be situations where lying is justified, because someone had the intention to use a harmless truth or just the doubt against you, or for another bad purpose.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West