Monday 14 November 2011

"Honesty is the best policy, but honesty won't get your friend free birthday cake at the diner." —Overheard in the city of Chicago. Does society require constant honesty? Why is it (or why is it not) problematic to shift the truth in one's favor, even if the lie is seemingly harmless to others? If we can't be "conveniently honest," what other virtues might we take more lightly? (U of Chicago)


-         “Honesty is the best policy”. This quote is truly a hoax. I believe honesty just brings more trouble into your life than removing or reducing it from your life. Say you get in trouble for drinking in school. The school expects you to tell the truth by giving fake proposals like, “we would reduce the punishment given to you if you tell us the truth.” In the end of telling the truth of the most outrageous night you’ve ever had, they get you expelled. Say your boss gives you his ideas of a certain project, which he thinks is the best idea he ever had, but everyone else thinks that it’s the worst. Your boss would ask you,” Honestly, please tell me how you think of my ideas.” The next thing you know, you are either demoted or fired from work.  I honestly think that honesty is nothing but a hoax to get you to do something for someone. It’s another way of winning an argument or gets you into trouble.
-         “Practice makes you perfect.” No human is perfect, practicing won’t help at all. This quote is out of this world. What person would practice so much that they would become perfect? It is true they might get better or maybe even close to perfect, but perfect is beyond the human limit. Hussain Bolt is already the fastest man in the world. If he practices too much, then he is sure to get some kind of injury, which might shatter his dreams of becoming the world’s fastest runner and for a fact, he already has a leg injury. Another example is Roger Federer, a professional tennis player, also number one in the world. Due to extensive and stressful practice to become the best, he too has an injured leg. “Practice makes you perfect”, what a hoax. 

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