Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Period 3, Blog Entry for Week of 10/07
Topic 2: The Virtue of Honesty
Directions: In a comment, respond to the prompt below in 300+ typed words. Also be sure to respond to a classmate's comment so that we can keep our classroom conversation going.
In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, Mathilde Loisel goes to great lengths to over compensate for the fact that she misplaced her friend's necklace. Had Mathilde Loisel come clean and told Madame Forestier that she lost the necklace, she may not have spent most of her life in debt. However, she chooses to lie to Madame Forestier by omission and live in poverty in order to replace the missing necklace.
Do you think that honesty is the best policy? Explain why or why not and cite examples from your own experiences and observations. Have you ever had an experience when honesty has done more harm than good? If faced with the choice between being dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship or being dishonest and putting yourself in an undesirable situation, which would you choose? Explain your choice.
Be sure to answer all parts of the question fully. Your comment/response to my prompt should be 300+ words. Your comment/response to a friend should be 50+ words. Your blog entries must be completed by 11:59 pm on October 14, 2012.
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Madam Loisel should have told her friend the truth. Honesty is the best policy and if she had told the truth she wouldn’t be living in debt for a long time. Only madam Loisel told her friend she could have bought another fake one to replace the cost of the necklace that was lost. Instead she lies to her friend and borrows money from loan sharks and her husband’s money to get enough to buy a real diamond necklace. The money was poorly spent because she could have told the truth and saved ten years of hard labor and overtime at jobs.
ReplyDeleteMadam Loisel wanted to look pretty at a party so she borrowed a diamond necklace from her rich friend. Her husband bought her a nice dress with the money he was saving to buy a rifle to go hunting with his friends. So he lets her buy a dress and she has a great time. Because of her need to feel important she borrowed a necklace that was misplaced. She didn’t want to ruin their friendship so she bought a new one. If only madam Loisel had told the truth she would have been able to live the life she had. The good thing is after her life had been ruined she has more respect for the life she had. Her friend would have been fine with her losing the necklace since it was only a fake and might have let it slide or ask for the five hundred franc in return for the loss of her necklace. Madam Loisel should have told her friend because honesty is the best policy. She now has more respect for the life she had because she has been to the level below it, being completely poor, and now understands that her life is and was better than others have to live today.
I agree with you Anthony everything you said was perfect. Its odd how a lie can ruin your whole life. That honesty could have given her a different life. Things in her life could have even improved very much. But I really like what you had to say great job.
DeleteIn my opinion honesty is the best policy. Mathilde should have been honest with her friend. If she did perhaps she wouldn't have had to live a life of poverty and hard ships. She could have enjoyed her life but she hid behind a lie. In my life my friend of mine had a similar problem. Everyday he sat in school and didn't do his work nor homework. When his parents asked regularly how he was doing in school he lied and said he was doing well. Afraid of how they might react but one day the school called home and notified his parents of his poor grades. He lost everything phone, TV, bike, and being able to hangout with his friends. After weeks even months he spent studying and working with no rewards. After his grades were better his parents explained that if he had told them in the first place they would have helped him rather than punish him for months. The morale if he would have been honest and owned up to his terrible hamartia his parents would have show him pathos. And help him rather than him lie and lie till it was worse far beyond repair. I had a similar problem with a far different out come my grades where starting to dwindle and I was having to much trouble. And I was embarrassed to ask for help. Instead of waiting I told my dad and waited for the worsted he smiled and told me he'd help me to improve to the best of his abilities. No punishment no recent just help and he was glad I came to him for help rather than wait for it to worsen. Back to the story if Mathilde only accepted she messed up and was willing to accept her consequences. She could have lived a life her life had fun but she chose a lie and her life slowly dwindled away right in front of her.
ReplyDeleteI think you had great choices in ideas and I like how you took many examples from the story we read. You also have very well choices in vocab you used pathos. And your right if he was honest he woulndt of lost all of that stuff. Your also right about how mathlide accepted what she did was a mistake and took the consequences. Very well response i enjoyed it.
DeleteI liked what you wrote. I really enjoyed how you used a lot of examples from the story. And I also liked how you used examples from your own life and related them to the story that we recently read. I really enjoyed it and keep up the good work.
DeleteIn my opinion honesty is the best policy because if you lie your not only hurting yourself but your hurting others. I have a story my best friend was always there for me and cared for me but one day he got a girlfriend. Now he was always a shy guy really didnt talk to people and kept to himself. He would only tell me his problems. As soon as he started talking to a girl outside of school he stole and did others things. Me personality it hurt not only me but himself. This girl got into his head in lies and she could of caused him harm or trouble. I found out and we worked throught it. But I was there and was honest with him about many things. " You have to try everthing once" he said. I told him its not the best thing would you try eating posion I told him he said no theres my point. So honesty is the most important key in life but sometimes you lie small not big. Like if your kid said where did I come from your not going to tell him you tell him or her when they get older. In the long run I would choose honestly its good and it makes you a humble person I know my friend will never do that again because i was honest with him and what could possibly happen. It also shows you have respect for yourself. I know personality it is a great quality to have in yourself to be honest.
ReplyDeleteI think Brian Spina’s was really well said and he had a great example of how honesty works. It sounds like he knows how not being honest can harm you. I was really relieved at the end that his friend turned out okay and glad to know that I have a really good friend like him around. XD
DeleteBrian this was really good and I liked how you explained your situation in the story. It was well worded and you had really good examples and details in there. It amazes me how one person can change another persons life and behavior. And i feel the same was im glad in the end of your story it all turned out okay :)
DeleteYou did a great job with the story and had nice examples on what the story is about and had a nice ending that was nice keep up the good work on the story's look forward to see what else you can do with the storys.
DeleteBrian I really liked how you brought your friends situation into this. It was well explained and organized. You had great examples. It looks like you really know what honesty means. I'm also sorry about your friend. Great job writing this and keep it going with your blogs. You write very well and explain your situations clearly.
DeleteThis is a great essay. You explained so well it I was really interested. You seem like you were a really good friend to him and always tried to help him. Good Job on this essay!
DeleteHonesty seems to be the best choice judging from my experiences, and from what I read about what happened to Madam Loisel in “The Necklace”. It is never easy to tell the truth, but for some strange reason it's easy to lie. I’m not really sure myself the reason why there is a need to lie when people know that it only makes things worse; I guess it is just another thing in the human mind that confuses us. Out of my own experiences’ I’ve learned the hard way that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. When I was little I hated the way tooth paste would sting my tongue. I don’t know why but if things are too minty or maybe it’s just tooth paste itself, but it stings my tongue like a really spicy pepper burns your mouth. So my mom asks me all the time if I brushed my teeth and I said yes even though I really didn’t. I would brush my teeth once in a while but not enough to avoid a cavity. After I got my cavity all fixed my mom went and got me a tooth paste that didn’t sting my tongue.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely choose to be honest because I have been honest so far in my friendship and I don’t want to find out what would happen if I wasn’t honest. There were some points that I wanted to lie, but I haven’t and probably never will. Sometimes I feel like it’s the best choice to lie because when your put in a situation when if you tell the truth to someone, it might hurt them in the end. Luckily I haven’t been in that situation yet, but I’m still looking out for those types of moments.
I like the way you described your story. I did the same thing as a little kid too. I have very sensitive teeth, and the toothpaste that my mom had bought me when I was little hurt my teeth. I usually never brushed my teeth because of it, and I always lied to my mom that I did. I went to the dentist when I was little and found out I had a bunch of cavities because of that. Then I learned that I needed to get different toothpaste that my dentist recommended for me, and everything was alright.
DeleteGlad to know that we had the same problem, and happy to know that i'm not the only one who hates tooth paste. :)
DeleteDo you think honesty is the best policy? I think honesty is the best policy, the reason I state this is because sometimes honesty will set you free. Many people think that it is always good to tell the truth but, if you know it will hurt someone it can be better to wait till a better time. I can relate to waiting to tell someone something when it was a better time. As I said before, I can relate because my cousin was upset about her friend and after that I was told I was moving. So I figured she would be really upset, if I told her I was moving so I waited. But come to find out when I told her she had already known because of my mom.
ReplyDeleteSometimes honesty can do major harm. For example, what if someone had bad news to tell someone and it hurt them to the point where they went into depression. If that had happened it wouldn’t be good, having a person that was happy and bubbly now in a depressed state. Having this happen would not be a good thing to deal with. Majority of people that are depressed often think about suicide, therefore honesty can cause harm.
If I was faced with a choice between being dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship or being dishonest and putting myself in an undesirable situation. I would choose putting myself in an undesirable situation; I pick this because I would not want to ruin a friendship that wouldn’t be worth messing up. Messing up a good friendship wouldn’t even be on my list of things to do. I would rather be upset first because then I know my friend would cheer me up so it would be a win in the situation.
I think this essay was well written! I agree that honesty is the best policy but that you have to be careful about the timing because I also would not want to hurt someone badly either. you are so right about choosing the right time to be truthful because if it is really devestating news it could make a person really depressed or suicidal. I also liked your examples!
DeleteIn my opinion I think honesty is the best policy. It is better off to tell the honest truth, instead of telling lies. I have been in this situation where I have encountered this problem before. One time I have wanted to go hang out with my friends late at night, and instead of asking my mother I just went ahead and snuck out of my house I tried to do it as quiet as possible, but I ended up waking up my mom in the process . I had to explain to my mother why I didn't ask her in the first place. My mother had grounded me for one month for not asking her. She even told me that she may of have let me go out at night if I asked her. It would have been better off for me to just ask her, and not tell her that I was going out like I did. If I was Mathilde Loisel, I would have told Mme. Forester the truth. Although Mme. Forester may have been mad about the necklace, it's still would of saved Mathilde Loisel a lot of money. Now Mathilde Loisel has to live in debt for the rest of her life. In Mathilde Loisels situation, it would've been the best to just tell the truth, and not lie. There are going to meet many situations in my life where I encounter this problem again, but I'm sure I'm just going to tell the truth. It is a lot better to just tell the truth instead of lying and getting yourself in trouble likeIn my opinion I think honesty is the best policy. It is better off to tell the honest truth, instead of telling lies. I have been in this situation where I have encountered this problem before. One time I have wanted to go hang out with my friends late at night, and instead of asking my mother I just went ahead and snuck out of my house I tried to do it as quiet as possible, but I ended up waking up my mom in the process . I had to explain to my mother why I didn't ask her in the first place. My mother had grounded me for one month for not asking her. She even told me that she may of have let me go out at night if I asked her. It would have been better off for me to just ask her, and not tell her that I was going out like I did. If I was Mathilde Loisel, I would have told Mme. Forester the truth. Although Mme. Forester may have been mad about the necklace, it's still would of saved Mathilde Loisel a lot of money. Now Mathilde Loisel has to live in debt for the rest of her life in debt . In mine and Mathilde Loisels situation, it would've been the best to just tell the truth, and not lie. I plan on telling the truth for many things in the future. I never wanted to get put in that situation again like I have. This has taught Mathilde Loisel a life lesson and I'm sure she will regret it for the rest of her life. Unfortunately, this is how everybody learns. I can only imagine how it felt to Mathilde Loisel to realize what she has done and what mistakes she has encountered. Another situation and that i've faced like Mathilde Loisel is when I pretended that I was sick and wanted to stay home from school. I had persuaded my mom for me to stay home and she'll let me. I wrote on Facebook to everyone that I was staying home because I was sick in quotation marks, and my mom has seen that and then known that I was lying to her. I had persuaded her the night before school, and the next morning she woke me up without notice and told me that I was going to school because she saw my post on Facebook. I was mad that I'd forgotten to change the settings on my Facebook so my mom couldn't see it. If i just told my mom that I didn't want to go to school because I was tired and I wasn't up for it, she may have let me stay home.
ReplyDeleteDavid you wrote this response with great ideas. I have made decisions simialar to yours about sneakng out of your house. Im glad you agree that honesty is the best choice. We have to spread this opinon around because many think telling the lies are better and there is not many people we can trust anymore. I m glad that I know I an trust you with being honest
DeleteI also snuck out of my house back when i lived in toms river long ago, it didn't end well what happened was i climbed out of a window leading to a low part of the roof. Then i fell And it hurt like hell. So i agree with you about honesty being the best option
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ReplyDeleteI think honesty is the best policy because dishonesty leads to misunderstandings. For example, in the story, The Necklace, if Mathilde had just been truthful she would have found that the necklace wasn't real and she could have spared herself a life of poverty trying to replace a piece of jewelry that wasn't genuine to begin with.
ReplyDeleteI recently observed a perfect example of dishonesty being harmful when I was watching an episode of Good Luck Charlie. Gabe really liked a girl at school but he was afraid she wouldn't like him for who he was so he made up lies. He told her that he was an only child and that his parents were also divorced. However, that wasn't true and the girl stopped by his house unexpectedly. She found out that his parents are in fact married and he has 3 siblings. After finding out that he had lied to her she said to him, "You should of told me the truth because I would have liked you for who you are." So, he only spited himself for lieing to her plus now he will never get the chance to know her. In the end dishonesty only caused Gabe embarassment, misunderstanding and the loss of a potential friendship/relationship with a girl he really liked.
Honesty leads to trust which is the basis and backbone of all relationships. However, sometimes life can be complicated and not so clear cut where we are forced into a situation of having to be dishonest regardless of a positive outcome. Therefore, I would choose being dishonest and putting myself in an undesirable situation rather than ruining a friendship because if it is a true friendship I would not want to see it end. Also, if I had to be dishonest to spare my friend's feelings being hurt than it would be worth the dishonesty.
Lastly, I am in favor of honesty being the best policy in most situations. It would only lie if it were in the best interest of a friend even if it put me in an awkward situation for awhile. Otherwise, I generally believe that the truth will set you free!
Do you believe honesty is the best policy? In my opinion I believe honesty is the best choice to make. In the story “The Necklace” Mathilde chose to hide her situation by not telling her friend she had lost the necklace. I think that no matter what your situation is there is always a better outcome when you to tell the truth, rather then when you lie. For example , if Mathilde chose to tell her friend that she had lost it she would have found out that it was a fake necklace. She went through all different paths to get money to replace her necklace and it wasn’t authentic.
ReplyDeleteRecently in my life I took part of a similar situation. When I was 11 years old I started playing soccer. At the time soccer it had cost $ 125.00 a month. Everyday I lied to my dad telling him that I loved that sport and couldn’t wait to do it next year. I felt that if I told my dad I didn’t like soccer he would be disappointed with me. Eventually the truth came out when I wasn’t expecting it to. This was because I skipped my game and the coach had called my dad asking him where I was. I skipped the game without telling my dad. When I told him the truth that I didn’t like soccer he wasn’t mad witch I was surprised with but he was mad that I lied. I faced consequences such as being grounded for a year without a being able to go outside. I wasted my fathers money. Being honest was my best option.
Dishonesty will only hurt you in the outcome of everything in life. I wish thatall my friends reading a situation like mine will know better when a time comes in your life! Be Honest.
I recently had a situation where honesty came into play. About 2 weeks ago, I was out riding my quad. As I was riding down the road, I saw a wallet. I turned around to see if that is what it really was. It did turn out to be a wallet. When I opened the wallet, there was no money in it. There was just an ID and a few other cards. So I thought it was weird that there was no money in it, so I looked around. When I looked around, I saw a bunch of bills everywhere in the woods. I found a total of 136 dollars. At first I thought I could keep the money, but the wallet did have an ID in it. So I looked at the ID and got the address of the guy it belonged to. I went to his house. He lived right around where I live. When I went to the door, I asked if the guy was there. His mom said yes, he is on the couch. I told him that I found his wallet. He didn’t even realize that he had lost it. He lost it when it fell out of the bag off his dirt bike. He thanked me and gave me $20. When I was leaving, his mother waved me back. She ran up and gave me a 50 dollar bill. I tried to give it back to her, but she said no. So I thanked her and went back home to go back out quading. I went back to where I found the wallet to look for his registration card that he lost with the wallet. As I was there looking, I found another 20 dollars. His mom came on her bike to look for his registration too. I told her about finding another $20. I tried to give it to her, but she wouldn’t take it. So, after doing the right thing and being honest, I made out with $90. So, honesty does pay!
ReplyDeleteI wish that could happen to me, it is great to know that I have a friend that is really honest and if I ever lose my wallet I wish that you are the one that finds it because I bet that there is people that would just take the wallet and don't even care if it will affect someone's pocket
DeleteI think that honesty is the best policy because if lie to everyone then when you are been serious they will think that you are lying and they would not pay attention to what you are saying. I have a story about a friend he will always talk about how he and his girlfriend were doing but she wasn't in our school so we didn't know if it was true or not, but he did not told anyone else about this girlfriend except me . one day he ask a girl out and she said yes she didn't know about the other girl . two weeks later the girl accidentally told me that they were going out, first i didn't believe her but then after we talk for a while I realize that I was true I didn't want to say anything about the other girl because I didn't know if it was true or not. the next day I went to my friend and ask him what was the name of his girlfriend that does go to our school and he told me that her name is Mathilde so and he told me that she is living in new York so i went into facebook and I found her I ask her to be my friend but she didn't know who I was so I told her of how did I hear from her, and she said that it was true that she was my friend's girlfriend I was shock to hear that. The next day I told the girl that goes to our school that i needed to talk to her, so told her everything that I knew, she started to cry, I told her that I didn't wanted to tell her but it was for the best, she was crying on my shoulder for a very long time, that she thank me because i told her, after that we went talk to my friend and he was angry. After that everybody in school knew and no one would talk to him . me and the girl which her name is Miriam got to be really good friends.
ReplyDeleteI think honesty is the best policy, because would you like it if someone lied to you. Say someone found something of yours that was very special to you and they kept it for themselves and never brought it back how would you feel. I once found a wallet by my friend’s house and it had some money and a couple of credit cards. Instead of keeping it me and my friends brought it back to the guy who lost it.
ReplyDeleteIn some cases honesty can do some harm to someone’s feelings. If a person is playing a sport of something related to one but there not so good do you tell them that there not good, no because that could hurt their feelings and it’s just not nice to do. If I was ever faced with the situation of being dishonest, but saving a friendship I would defiantly lie. Sometimes lying is a must in certain situations so you don’t get yourself in something you don’t want to be in. if you were ever faced with telling someone something that could ruin a friendship you wouldn’t do it either , I don’t think anybody would. Its someone’s choice though to lie or to be honest and I respect any choice they make.
I think that honesty is the best policy. I think that telling the truth is better than lying to someones face. Theres always that sense of guilt when your not supposed to be doing something but you do it anyways. And later on you think about it and then end up telling the truth anyway. One time my friend wanted to know if her hair was okay and it wasn't. It looked really crazy but I didn't want to be mean about and say it looked horrible. I told her anyway and she got mad and wouldn't talk to me. At least I told her the truth but she got over it the next day anyway. I don't like lying to people and I am very straight forward so people get mad at me sometimes for telling the truth. I haven't really gotten into cases where honesty has done more good then harm besides the fact that some people hate me for saying whats on my mind but I could care less of what people think of me.
ReplyDeleteIf I was faced with a choice between being dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship or being dishonest and putting myself in an undesirable situation I would definitely pick the first one. I would choose potentially harming a friendship because they can always be fixed. If that happened between me and one of my best friends I know I would do my best and try to fix it because we were so close. If that were to happen it would be like shooting one of my family members, that how close we are. I have know them since first grade and were extremely close. Everyone needs to lie once in a while when its necessary but not all the time. Thats when problems start and they can escalate into to something greater and also if someone lied a lot no one would trust them.
I think that honesty is always the best policy. I think that because being honest makes you look like a very good person. If you lie all the time that makes you look like a bad person. Honesty is the key if you want to have people by your side who care about you and look up to you as a good person. Lying is a very bad thing. It can put a bad situation into a worse situation. I have lied when I was little because I was afraid that I would get in deep trouble and the situation only got worse. I learned over the years that honesty isn’t a bad thing. Sure you can get in trouble if you are honest but that just shows that you are a honest person and will not lie. When I was little I use to lie a lot. For example when I was seven I got a marker and drew all over the bathroom door and than I blamed it on my brother. And of course the situation got worse. Instead of telling the truth I got in more trouble then I would have originally have because I lied. Another time when I was six I got really mad at my cousin because he would not let me play a game. So I kicked him in the shoulder and after that I felt so bad. And when they asked me what happened I told my aunt that he fell. I lied and that was the wrong thing to do. Now that I am older I know that lying is very bad. Now I am honest with everyone I know. Lying just makes situations go really bad than they really have to. No one should lie and everyone should be honest.
ReplyDeleteThat was an awesome entry Jason. I totally agree that honesty is the best policy. I like how you added the personal examples. It really made the entry easier to relate to. You keep getting better at these entries with each passing one. You are doing a great job keep it up.
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I think honesty is the best policy because without honesty the world would be very different and not in a good way either. I think that honesty is the best policy because if your honest it will mostly because if your honest it will most likely take you somewhere in life and in life if you go somewhere then you get a good job then a good home then a good family. I know that being honest with people also gets you awarded in different ways and if you do good things with people then they will do good things for you and that’s also another way of achieving in life . Yes I have done something where I was being honest and when I was honest I got in trouble for being 100% truthful so actually if you think about it if being honest could go both ways it can go really good or it could go horribly wrong . But for me I’d rather be honest and truthful because I know karma likes to bite you in the butt and that’s not a good thing at all . I have seen people not be honest in a relationship and have everything go wrong for them because they decided to be not honest and when they were no honest with each other that made them breakup and never talk again . I don’t like to see that happen because if it happens sometimes people feel guilt and if people feel guilt it leads into other things and that also leads to people never being honest at all but that is how I feel about being honest I feel honesty is the best solution for every problem no matter how big or how small..... this is the end of my blog hope you liked it.
Antonio this is a great response. I find this good because i have seen the same things happen to my friends. I like how you mentioned that if your not honest karma will bite you in the butt because that's what my mom always told me when i was younger. Honesty is the best thing because when you lie u cant cover it up by telling the truth. Again great response Antonio
DeleteI really think that you did an amazing job on this blog because yeah i found somebodies wallet i would definately return it back to the owner or try my hardest to find out who's wallet it belongs to or who it might belong to but all together how you did this blog was very good
ReplyDeleteDo you think that honesty is the best policy? Explain why or why not and cite examples from your own experiences and observations. Have you ever had an experience when honesty has done more harm than good? If faced with the choice between being dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship or being dishonest and putting yourself in an undesirable situation, which would you choose?In my opinion over the years of learning in my life I've seen many people lose friend because of lying. So out of what I've seen i think honesty is the best policy. When i was younger my sister broke my brothers bike and when they asked who did it my brother lied and make the situation worse.It turned out to were if he would've told the truth he would not have got grounded when they found out.This is a life situation that I've observed that could have been avoided.I have seen many things in my life that were honesty has done more harm then good i have seen people tell the truth that ended their friend ship to were if he or she hadn't said anything they would still be good friends.Even though situations like this happen its better to tell the truth then to lie about something that could possibly cause harm to a friendship.I think I would rather be honest to my friend even though it could ruin our friendship because if I would've lied and he found out I be leave that it could do more permanent damage then if you told the truth that could possibly be able to fix between me and my friend.This is why I think being honest is the best way to go even if its something that could ruin a friendship.So if something life this ever happens in your life look for the right way out by telling the truth to your friend.
ReplyDeleteHonesty is obviously the best policy because if everybody lied where would we be? We wouldn't even know because we were lied to. In real life this policy also applies, Let's say i didn't do this blog that i'm typing right now, then i come into school tomorrow and say that my internet was "broken". It wouldn't work anyway but sometime later that day something bad will happen to my because i lied about not writing this blog. It also applies to more serious matters. Like cheating on your girl or guy. Nobody will come out and tell them that their cheating on them, but when they finally do find out watch yourself, they'll get you when you least expect it. Also, Honesty is also a bad thing. Lets face it, nobody gives a crap if you admit to doing something, you'll still find yourself getting beat up or having detention. So Really i think that being honest and lying are both ok depending on the specific situation. Although stealing and then lying is bad. (don't steal anyway) In the Necklace mdm. Lousil decided to lye and get her a real diamond necklace to replace Mdm. Forestier's Diamond necklace. Instead of buying a new one for all of their life savings, If she would have told Mdm. Forestier that she lost her necklace she would have found out it was fake and could have easily got it back for her. This is my blog on Honesty.
ReplyDeleteI think that honesty is the best policy. Why? It’s because we were taught to always tell the truth since day one of our childhood. We try our best to always tell the truth. Being dishonest usually doesn't bring anyone to any good. Everyone has been taught to always tell the truth because its the best policy and it most likely leads anyone to become a big person. Although in order to understand why honesty is the best policy, you need to know what honesty means. In my own words i think that honesty is in each and everything we do to make good impressions and get the other person to believe in us. Honesty shows that we are capable of trustworthy. Honesty takes a person a long way in their life. If we are honest then we will gain respect from everyone. Like Thomas Jefferson once said, “Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” That relates to this because Jefferson meant that honesty is the best policy. Honesty is the key to how to live a better life. And wisdom comes from honesty and integrity. Without being honest this world would be a whole new world.
ReplyDeleteI've never experienced a dishonesty that has done more harm than good. Although, if I was ever faced with the choice between being dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship or being dishonest and putting myself in an undesirable situation I would chose to be dishonest and potentially ruining a friendship then to putting myself into a situation I wouldn't like to be in and can’t get out of. I’d rather pick that because in some way I can most likely get my friendship back with the right honesty. In the other hand, I wouldn't want to get into a situation where I can never get out of.
This whole honesty thing relates to a time in my life. It was the time my brother had his first girlfriend, I knew about it, but never told my parents. That time I felt very guilty about not telling them the truth. There was a knot in my throat and it was not a good feeling. Once my parents found out about my brothers situation I got in big trouble for not telling them about it. In my case, this was a big deal because my parents didn't want to experience something that could go wrong just because my brother wanted a girlfriend. They thought my brother wasn't ready yet and he could have done a wrong thing while in the relationship that could have harmed his life. The point in the situation was that my brother and i never told them about this and we lost some of our parents trust. Ever since that I've learned to not lie to my parents again or I could lose all of their trust and trust is very hard to gain.
Once again, I think that honesty is important because we were taught to speak the truth since the day we were born and that wisdom comes from honesty and integrity.
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I believe honesty is the best trait policy. I think that if you lie then it seems you have to tell more lies to cover that up. Its just becomes bigger and bigger. What if you forget what u lied about? If you always tell the truth then you don’t have to worry about forgetting what u said. Liars usually won’t look you in the eye and get all nervous. When I was little and would try to tell a lie to my mom, she would always know and would ask me if I was lying at that point and I would smile and then she would know. Then I would get a lecture on why I shouldn’t lie. The truth seems to always come out sooner or later so why be labeled as a liar. She would say just tell me the truth right away and avoid a stronger punishment. Most of the time I wouldn’t get in trouble for telling the truth because honesty is the best policy. Why lie what’s the point!
I really don’t know when honesty would do more harm than good. I have really never been in that situation. However in the story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupossant it seems Madame Forestier could of made Mathile Lolsel pay for the necklace either way lost or misplaced, so why lie. I read the story and I am sure the moral of the story was not to lie, be honest.
To answer the question to lie and put myself in an undesirable situation isn’t even acceptable. I wouldn’t even consider it. So I need to answer the question about friendship. Friendships are supposed to be a great thing. If you have a friend you can’t be honest with then maybe you shouldn’t be friends with them. A true friend will stand by you and trust you as much as you trust them. True friends are hard to find but when you find them you always have them and they have you.
Do you think honesty is the best policy? Yes I do. That's the only policy I usually use. Only because I'm not a good liar. If you lie karma will come back and bite you in the butt. That's what I believe at least. For example, I lied to my friends about not being able to hangout, I was able to but I just hungout with my other friends instead. It was a pretty bad mistake and I felt really bad. They got really mad at me and I didn't hangout with them for like a week but then they finally forgave me. Also another example would be was when I lied to my mom saying that I did clean my room. She finally realized I didn't I got my phone taken away for a day then I never did it again. If faced with the choice of being dishonest and potentially losing a friend ship or being dishonest and being in a undisarable situation. I would choose being dishonest and being in an undisarable situation. The reason I choose this because I need my friends. All my close friends all know everything about my life. I wouldn't be able to live without any of my friends. If I didn't know my friends or if I got into a fight with them I would have nothing to do with my life. I would be sitting inside all alone everyday. I know I wouldn't like an undisarable situation but if I had a friend I know I would be able to talk to them. To wrap this all up, honesty is the best priority. If you choose it people will be able to trust you and karma won't get back at you.
ReplyDeleteDo you think honesty is the best policy? I think it is. If you tell the truth you wont get into as much trouble as when you lie. like in the neckless when the main character lied and did not tell her friend that she lost it. After her and her husband lived pore and paying off debts for several years they find that the necklace was a fake. So her and her husband got all the loans they did for nothing and they were disappointed. When the main character saw her friend again she looked so old from all the work she did to pay off the loans to buy the new necklace. She should have just told the truth about losing the thing. the rich friend would have said its ok it was fake don’t worry about it. Thats some reasons why i think honesty is the best policy another one is because if you lie and the person your lied to figures out that u lied they will be hurt and that person could be a good friend and then you will feel bad and you would hate yourself. So if you tell the truth it makes somethings a little better. when things aren’t as bad your happy then when they would make you feel. So thats my feelings on honesty being the best policy for everyone because it will get u into less trouble. Make you feel better when you do something wrong and makes you feel a little right with yourself. You also get less of a punishment. Like for example when you tell the police the truth and not a lie the police might give you just a ticket instead of putting you in jail or turning you into a convicted fellen. so thats my stance on honesty being the best policy.
ReplyDeleteDo I think honesty is the best policy? In some cases it is, but in some other cases, it is not good. I don't always follow it, but about 70% of the time, I do. An example of it being a bad case is that if you're in court and you won, but they found out you lied. they can automatically put you in jail because you swore that you weren't going to lie, but you did. An example of a good case is that you get confronted by the principle of the school and he asks you if you vandalized something. Since you did, and you told the principal you did, you might not get in as much trouble as you would if you lied to the principal about it. Like in the story the necklace, she didn't tell her friend the truth so she spent all of her time working up the money to pay her back, but she found it was fake and she spent all the time getting the diamond necklace for nothing. If she had just confronted her friend and told her that, it wouldn't have happened and she wouldn't of had to spend all the time doing that. It all matters on the situation, you couldn't really say it without a situation or a conflict going on. Most people wouldn't be able to give you an answer unless you had to give them a conflict or you gave them a situation in which they would have to answer it. But it would all have to deal with the conflict and also the type of person that was making the decision. If you had someone that didn't really care about what it was and didn't want to have to make the choice, then it would vary.
ReplyDeleteI believe honesty is the best policy. It’s the best policy because when you lie you get scared that you will get caught. But if you’re honest you don’t have to worry about anything. For example when I was little I played with my dad’s phone even though I was told not to. For the whole day I was scared he would find out. So I eventually broke down and confessed to what I did. My dad just smiled and said “Thanks for tell me the truth.” He didn’t even get mad. Then he gave me a piece of candy because I told the truth. So that’s when I learned telling the truth is better than lying. Even to this day I look back to that day to show that lying is wrong.
ReplyDeleteI once had an experience where telling the truth did more harm then good. It was to my friend when I graded his quiz. He needed a good grade on this quiz to pass but he got a 68 on it. So I felt bad when I had to be the one to tell him. When I told him he was sad for a little bit but he soon realized he would just have to do better next marking period. I was proud of him because in the next marking period he aced the class. If it turned out that if I told the truth and it might ruin a friendship I would still tell the truth. I would rather do this because if they are really my friend they would be happy I told them the truth. Also I wouldn’t want to be known as a liar if the person found out. Also it would probably be better for the other person if I told the truth. So even if they don’t want to be friends with me afterwards then at least I helped a friend.