Lies

are not bad.

Sender;
Receiver;
Message;
Messenger.

Person A (Sender) gives a message to Person B (Receiver) via Messenger.

Person A does something that causes them to lie to B.

Do you shoot the messenger?

Of course not.

You shoot Person A.

So lying isn't bad because it's actually the context in which the lie was fabricated that's at fault.

(It sounded better in my head, that's why it's all messy!)

edit for clarification/TLDR: it's not so much the lie that's bad, it's the reason for lying. stop shooting the messenger.