Comments | ___eyesonfire: In the beginning, there was honesty.

___eyesonfire

In the beginning, there was honesty.

Aug 14, 2008 22:56

Should I actually post this entry? I think i've always heard people say, 'think less, do more' so maybe I should just post it. I could be wrong on this. Firstly, I can't even quote people right (except for Oscar Wilde's famous 'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable it has to be altered every six months' and I'm suspecting I probably got it ( Read more... )

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whitemira August 15 2008, 16:07:18 UTC

It's the best to be yourself. Because be yourself, you will not feel guilty.

Honestly is always the first or second in life, no matter what. I mean, everyone DO lie sometimes. But to be honest is an very important thing. For example, after you presented your work to the clients, they have bad comments in certain parts of your work. They won't want to lie to you and say that your work is fantastic!
You get what I mean?

To be honest can help a lot of people. I know sometimes if you don't lie, you can't solve the problem. But you must think, is this really the only solution you have? Will you feel guilty about it?

Don't worry, Marilyn. This is life. Even everyone is lying, life still have to go on. Sigh...

animus_mentis August 17 2008, 17:11:56 UTC

You're right in that freedom of speech leads to the continuation of racism and discrimination in certain instances, but I still think it is an important part of life. The government shouldn't have the right to tell us what we can and cannot say. When I think of countries that have no freedom of speech, socially repressed countries usually come to mind, like China and a great many countries in Africa. When you have no freedom of speech, you can't voice your opinions of what you think the government is doing wrong because what the government wants isn't always right.

Freedom of speech is a problem when it involves things like slander and that's why many lawsuits arise--because those slanderous people are spreading falsehoods. You could probably argue the same thing about racism, but I feel like that is a little harder to create a lawsuit upon (unless it's a specific work environment instance) because I see racism as being something that is generalized towards an ethnicity rather than always towards one specific person...unless you' ( ... )