Is it possible to be human and honest?

[Evangelicalhumanist]

In this thread I’m asking you to leave Dogma and politics behind,to be honest as you see it,just you without something to lean on,to see the elephant in the room and have an answer,can you?

Before asking if it's possible, it might be better to ask is it always right? I mean, you might be at the bedside of someone you love dearly, someone you know for certain will very soon no longer be among the living, and have to answer them when they ask: "Am I going to die?"

Is it better to try to provide comfort in such a situation, or be brutally honest?

 

[England my lionheart]

Before asking if it's possible, it might be better to ask is it always right? I mean, you might be at the bedside of someone you love dearly, someone you know for certain will very soon no longer be among the living, and have to answer them when they ask: "Am I going to die?"

Is it better to try to provide comfort in such a situation, or be brutally honest?

to be honest lol I screwed up the op as that’s not the honesty I mean but personally I would prefer honesty

 

[robocop (actually)]

In this thread I’m asking you to leave Dogma and politics behind,to be honest as you see it,just you without something to lean on,to see the elephant in the room and have an answer,can you?

I can honestly say that anyone who's honest deserves to be president.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

to be honest lol I screwed up the op as that’s not the honesty I mean but personally I would prefer honesty

Then I'm really not sure what it is you are asking.

Still, I think it is perfectly possible to be an honest human. But being honest doesn't always mean being right. It is perfectly possible that I can be mistaken about a something I assume true, and then use that assumption in my attempt to answer honestly. Thus, I have been honest, yet I'm still wrong.

 

[England my lionheart]

I can honestly say that anyone who's honest deserves to be president

A president could only be honest once president imo

 

[England my lionheart]

Then I'm really not sure what it is you are asking.

Still, I think it is perfectly possible to be an honest human. But being honest doesn't always mean being right. It is perfectly possible that I can be mistaken about a something I assume true, and then use that assumption in my attempt to answer honestly. Thus, I have been honest, yet I'm still wrong.

I get what your saying but not what I’m aiming at

 

[Psalm23]

In this thread I’m asking you to leave Dogma and politics behind,to be honest as you see it,just you without something to lean on,to see the elephant in the room and have an answer,can you?

Yes, at least some of the time.

 

[sun rise]

Since you are not asking about honesty, I'll wait for the revised question.

 

[England my lionheart]

Yes, at least some of the time.

kudos for that

 

[England my lionheart]

Since you are not asking about honesty, I'll wait for the revised question.

wise move

 

[robocop (actually)]

They have to get elected being honest too.

 

[England my lionheart]

They have to get elected being honest too.

which president did that?

 

[robocop (actually)]

which president did that?

Anyone who does both deserves it.

 

[England my lionheart]

Anyone who does both deserves it.

so has any US president done both or any president anywhere in the world That you can name?

 

[robocop (actually)]

so has any US president done both or any president anywhere in the world That you can name?

I'm not sure that Biden lied for certain; feel free to help me out.

 

[England my lionheart]

I'm not sure that Biden lied for certain; feel free to help me out.

I doubt you need my help

 

[Secret Chief]

Before asking if it's possible, it might be better to ask is it always right? I mean, you might be at the bedside of someone you love dearly, someone you know for certain will very soon no longer be among the living, and have to answer them when they ask: "Am I going to die?"

Is it better to try to provide comfort in such a situation, or be brutally honest?

Not to be boringly detailed, but my mum had dementia. The upshot was that I told her lies probably every time I saw her, for the last 6 years of her life. Honesty would sometimes have just needlessly upset her.

 

[osgart]

Honesty is as deserves and but one virtue. I've met honest people before. They are easy to love. I don't think anything gets done without a measure of honesty. I don't think anybody can be trusted without honesty. Human nature doesn't come with an unavoidable can't be honest nature. My experience is that some people see it as a weakness when they should see it as a danger instead because if you're not honest you are cheating somebody. And if everybody is cheating somebody then there is no such thing as a civilization and a society.

So what exactly is the glue that holds society together? It's honesty and the rest are riding their coattails.

So human nature is capable of honesty, and is also very capable of screwing themselves over to not regard honesty. To me we live in a generation where dishonesty is growing. But there's no written law of human nature that says honesty is impossible, and that dishonesty is a foregone conclusion.