Honesty

My mom and I talked about the subject of honesty. We talked about if it's ok to hurt someone's feelings by being honest or lying to avoid hurting their feelings. I thought it was ok to lie if you were doing it to avoid someone from being hurt, but my mom said eventually that the person would find out you were lying. My mom said you would only be buying time for yourself. So I thought about it and I said how would they find out you were lying if it bought you time?

And we came to the conclusion that honesty was the best answer, even though you would hurt someone's feelings.