Your esteemed opinon, Please.

[bl4ckg4rd]

I also posted this on myspace, thought I'd give everyone a chance to express

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[marchenland]

I think that honesty should include a willingness to disclose personal information, if said honesty is needed. However, if personal information has no bearing on the topic or situation, there should be no compulsion to disclose.

For example, an honest person may be willing to disclose their drug use, but if they are being asked about it for no good reason other than to fulfill someone else's curiosity or worse, to get them into trouble, they should not feel compelled to answer.

So, for me, I guess it falls somewhere in the vicinity of the 5th Amendment and

[bl4ckg4rd]

Thanks Madylyn.

[marchenland]

That "and" should just be a period! Oops!

Hello!

[rocketfleur]

The difference is a professional one: a client pays a therapist for professional advice. Clients can only help themselves if they are honest. In non-professional relationships, it's clearly a different matter, and varies with every different relationship.

Close relationships and intimacy can only come with trust and disclosure, in my opinion, but in other relationships where this isn't required, why disclose super personal information?

That is my two cents on this matter!

Re: Hello!

[bl4ckg4rd]

Thank you, Jennifluer.

Greetings!

[mr_ire]

Honesty is one part disclosure and one part integrity. Being honest with someone sometimes requires to you say, honestly, “I won't tell you” in order to protect the interests of others. Of course this does depend on the nature of the relationship between you and the person you are being honest with. Cases exist where the information you have is neither relevant or necessary to the person requesting it, therefore not disclosing it to them is not dishonest nor is it a “lie of omission.”