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When it comes to honesty I agree with Jack:
I've been caught in lies and paid the consequences. I've also been strictly honest and open and paid consequences for that as well.
I've personally found the consequences for lying have ALWAYS been LESS than for speaking what is known or feared but that everyone seems to lack the testicular fortitude to say. People not only tolerate being lied to, they seem to require it. To lie is "human" while to speak truth is "brutal". Ever hear a lie called "brutal"?
Whistleblowers might be doing the right thing when they call out their employers for corruption or deception, but most of them find it very difficult to get work somewhere else afterwards. Why? Because no employer feels they can trust them. They have a record of speaking the truth.
And society at large seems to put the unvarnished truth in the same category as strict veganism, sobriety, and chastity before marriage: Nice ideals, but truly embraced in real life only by fringe quacks.
And this is in ENTP because I think most of y'all know what I'm talking about.
What do you think of honesty?
I've been caught in lies and paid the consequences. I've also been strictly honest and open and paid consequences for that as well.
I've personally found the consequences for lying have ALWAYS been LESS than for speaking what is known or feared but that everyone seems to lack the testicular fortitude to say. People not only tolerate being lied to, they seem to require it. To lie is "human" while to speak truth is "brutal". Ever hear a lie called "brutal"?
Whistleblowers might be doing the right thing when they call out their employers for corruption or deception, but most of them find it very difficult to get work somewhere else afterwards. Why? Because no employer feels they can trust them. They have a record of speaking the truth.
And society at large seems to put the unvarnished truth in the same category as strict veganism, sobriety, and chastity before marriage: Nice ideals, but truly embraced in real life only by fringe quacks.
And this is in ENTP because I think most of y'all know what I'm talking about.
What do you think of honesty?