The lying that occurs so frequently in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn show Twain's moral battle come to print.  Some of the lies are labeled as "bad" while the lies Huck tells are "good" because they are helping Jim become a free man.  The difference between the lies is simple.  The con men tell lies to gain wealth.  They hurt people for personal gain.  It is without remorse that they print fake posters for the capture of Jim and lie about being Peter Wilks brothers.  Huck's lies are to get information (when he dressed up as a girl) or to advance Jim's pursuits for freedom.  That is what makes them "good" lies.  Both lies are wrong.  But when I reflect on this dilemma I am reminded of the story of Rahab, the harlot in Jericho.  Do you remember?  She hid God's chosen people, the spies.  She lied to protect them from being killed.  This is a moral dilemma that we as cozy Americans don't have to worry about.  We are not plagued by war.  We are presumably not hiding spies or cons or slaves in our houses.  But our lies are often to promote ourselves and to stay out of trouble.  How do men answer the question- "do I look fat in this"?  Is it with honesty?  Here is another dilemma- lying to protect the feelings of others.  We deal with lying every day.  That is why there is so much lying in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  It is because it is an easy sin.  It is one with many dilemmas.  Twain clearly saw that truth could be a relative concept.  We can believe that slavery is wrong, but do nothing about it.  When we "do what comes handiest" is it for ourselves or a friend?  When the remnants of slavery and the treatment of blacks were continuing to spill over, I am sure some people reading Huckleberry Finn thought Huck's lies were horrible, wrong, and terrible, but it made them think.  People lie all the time.  Children lie.  It is probably the first sin they learn to do with ease.  There is something innocent in the lie of child and that is what Huck is- a young boy.  He wants to unshackle society's conventions to help someone who is "white on the inside" and cares for his children like a white man would.  His lies continue to be acceptable because he doesn't know the sin he is committed to helping a slave.  Twain is making a point that not everything is black and white.  We can't just put sins in compartments.  The truth is that slavery was wrong and people would lie to themselves.  It made everything okay.