Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Period 8/9, 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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I think honesty is the best policy. I hate liars, most people do. Don’t do something if you don’t want people knowing the truth. If it’s something to be ashamed of, it’s something you should not be doing. Lying is the wrong way out of the things. Some people refer to lies as “white lies” . White lies are little lies people believe are not harmful basically. Truth is the best way to go. Even when you’re stuck in a bad situation when the truth might hurt you, a friendship ect. Lying could put you in a 2X worse situation they you were already in if the truth is spilled. Telling the truth you can still have the potential of fixing your wrong doing. Always tell the truth! The truth can be scary in certain situations. I’ve been in bad situations with my mom or dad when I don’t want to tell the truth but I know it’ll come out sooner or later. Honesty is the best policy in my opinion! An example of why I think you should always tell the truth is because one of my friends lied to me, about something that was big to me but I assume little to her. When I found out the truth I was very upset with her. We had gotten into an argument, we didn’t talk for a long, long time. Until eventually she owned up to her mistake and apologized. We’re good friends again, I still do not have full trust for her anymore but I learned to forgive. When someone forgives you doesn’t necessarily mean they forget. Be careful with what you do if you don’t want the truth hurting someone or you as well. Without truth, there is no trust, without trust there is no friendship and/or friendship. Truth is defiantly the best policy.
ReplyDeleteTaylor i think you are soo right! if you tell the truth, then people will respect you more as a true person and not just some liar . :)
DeleteSuch a good response! I always enjoy reading yours because they always relate to me or i truly agree! So good!
DeleteGreat response! I love your writing style. Especially for this response it was well written and had great pooints. Good job Taylor.
DeleteTaylor i agree with you. I hate liars too. Why lie when it is easier to tell the truth. Telling the truth is always the right way to go.
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ReplyDeleteI think that honesty is the best policy. When u tell the truth, people will look at you and know hat u do not lie. They will be able to trust you for anything as the relationship with that person goes on. But if you don’t tell the truth then people will not trust you. You will not have many friends and you will become a loner. And nobody wants to be a loner. Well I am not a loner so I don’t care. Ha-ha. But in all seriousness, you should tell the truth for anything. And also if you have friends that tell you their deep secrets, they trust you to keep it a secret. So they do not want you telling anyone their secret. But if you not keep there trust and tell someone their secret, than they will be friends with you much longer. Trust is the key in friendship and once you break that line of trust, it is hard to get it back because of lying. If I was faced with the choice of having to tell the truth to a friend and knowing that it would harm our friendship, I would still tell the truth because sometimes the truth may hurt, but it will always top lying. That is why honesty is the best way to go. Trust me. I am always right!
ReplyDeleteI really like what you wrote, good job! I agree.
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Honesty is definitely the best policy. No ifs ands or buts! You can name any situation you would like; it is honesty that wins in the end. For example if a friend was talking about another friend and they bring someone else into it and the person denies the fact that they are talking about each other they will find out and they will turn on the person they pulled into the situation. That’s just one situation but there are so many different ones as well. Counter point, if someone wore an outfit you disliked or did something new to their hair and you tell them that you hate it, that person isn't going to change themselves for you they’re just going to have hurt feelings. So sometimes opinions shouldn't be shared just honesty. There is a major difference that most people can’t figure that out.
So some people argue that you should choose a friendship over honesty and I disagree. If someone isn't a loyal friend, that talks behind your back, that is never there for you when you need them or they have done something really wrong to you they AREN'T worth a friendship. You should pick honesty because that person has lied to you to potentially destroy your friendship. I can’t say that this hasn't happened to me because then I would be lying. I've lost friends before middle school even started and that’s just stupid but when someone shows there true colors to you and it’s all blacks and brown you shouldn't be there friend anymore especially when you have every color of the rainbow. Over the years I have learn to choose my friends wisely, to never talk about someone behind there back, and to keep you friends close and your enemies closer because the “enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
Honesty is the best policy is a saying many adolescence have been taught from a young age. Though being taught from a young age can be used in every life experience. Throughout life you will come to find that being truth full and honest will be a benefit in every way. Helps you keep and find new friends, parents and family trust you, and reliable for a job. Being trustworthy for a job can be big. This can make your boss like you and depending on the job getting a promotion or a raise. Being honest is a good life lesson to know and use. From experience loosing trust makes it almost impossible to gain back. Also picking people to trust is a big choice. If you pick the wrong person to trust you can end up being hurt. Most people I trust are my closest friends and family. These are the people who know the most about me and all my secrets. On the other side of honesty is lying. Lying is the biggest way to loose being trusted. And not being trusted can make you lose friends and get your parents on your back. The world we live into today two things no one wants is losing friends and having parents watching our every move. Loosing friends is not good either. Many people rely of friends to be there for them. So by doing something that’s not honest and not truthful you can lose the friend that’s all ways there for you .If I had to choose being dishonest and losing a friendship or an undesirable situation I would pick the situation. This is because trust worthy friend ships are hard to come by with all the attitudes and two faced people in the world today. Honesty is the best policy is a good life lesson what I’ve gone by my whole life and plan to continue for the rest of my life.
ReplyDeletei like what you had to write about brandon. I agree about being honest for your whole life becuase you can gain alot of friends for just being honest.
DeleteI agree with what you wrote Brandon life is to important to lie. It's better to have someone's trust rather than no trust at all.
DeleteHonesty is definitely the best policy. When your honest to people they will trust you. But if your that type of person who lies about everything no one would want to talk to you because they know if you tell them something that’s suppose to be a secret you’ll tell everyone. No one likes to be friends with a liar who goes around opening their mouths and saying stuff that’s not true at all. You wont have anybody who trusts you meaning you wont be able to talk to anyone but yourself. Being honest all the time will earn you a lot of peoples trust. Being honest you can get your family’s trust because they will know that they could come to you at any time when they need someone to talk to, because they know you wont go around and tell the whole world. For example my friend would always lie to their parents and the parents would believe them but one day the truth came out and the parents weren’t happy and didn’t have trust in them anymore. It took them a while to finally have some trust again for their son. So when I get asked the question “Is Being Honest The Best Policy” I say yes it for sure is the best policy.
ReplyDeleteQuite honestly, I believe honesty is the best policy by far. However, I also believe that lying is acceptable at times. An example of this would be when a dog runs away in a family. You don’t want to hurt your child by telling them well, you know the dog ran away. So, to keep them from breaking down you tell them a “white” lie. Even though I find this acceptable I do not like it when people lie because they think it will keep them from getting in trouble when you know it wont. Sure, they may not get caught but eventually it will come back around.
ReplyDeleteAfter all why lie, I mean your better off accepting your own consequences for your actions. As I said before you can only get away with a lie for so long. It will come back to get you. A personal example of my own is when I was younger and my parents asked me if I cleaned my room I said yes. However I was lying so when my parents came in to check my room they found a mess as a result I was grounded. When it comes to lying in a friendship I believe that you should tell your friends the truth. After all if someone was talking behind my back and my friend knew about it I would tell them and I hope they would do the same.
I don’t like it when friends think you have to lie to keep a friendship together. Does it work? Well yes it can but just like all lies they will eventually be unearthed. When that does happen it will tear the friendship apart. No one wants that to happen so just tell your friends the truth if there truly your friend they will forgive you.
I agree that honesty is a good policy but that it is alright to lie at times. It is true that you should not lie and accept your consequences. I would rather my friend tell me the truth than lie to me. I enjoyed reading this and I agree with your statement.
DeleteI think honesty is the truly the best policy and the only because lying is an ugly thing to do. Lying tears people apart and ruins relationships. For instance when I was a little girl my friend had a pet hamster named Harry Hamster. I think she loved that hamster more than she loved her family. When I went to her house she would let me feed the hamster and one day I fed him but instead of feeding him hamster food I feed him people food. After a while of feeding him real food he died. My friend was so upset but I didn’t tell her it was my fault for a good 3 months and when she found out we got into a fight and were never friends again. I have never really witnessed an event where honesty did more harm than good but is the best policy. I am not saying it is not the best policy. If I had the choice of ruining a friendship by being honest or lying and keeping a friend I would tell the truth. I choose honesty because even if I lied and they believed me it could get back around to my friend that I lied and could still potentially loose my friend just like it did when I was a kid. Also I think being honest is very trust worthy and makes you reliable. So as I hope I proved in my blog above that honesty is always the best policy. I hope you always use honesty in your situations.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion honesty is the best policy. Most of the time when people lie it has a bad result. Except for in some cases when you should lie. One example is some people make up a fake excuse for not doing an assignment and receive a zero for it. But if you are honest then they might give you an extra day to do the assignment. So most of the time honesty is the best policy.
ReplyDeleteSometimes lying can ruin friendships between people.I have seen it where people are no longer friends because one of them lied to the other. this happens all the time. Just because one person did not tell the truth to the other. so as you can see it is stupid to lie. Also this can happen in families. I don't think that relationships should be ruined from not being honest.
But sometimes people can also get mad from the truth. Some people over react to everything. Which means people get mad from lies and honesty. So in that case it is a lose-lose situation. An example of that is like saying to a kid you sold his pet when it really died. Obviously the kid would get mad/upset if you lied or told the truth.
So my final thoughts on honesty is that you should be honest more then half the time. Because 1. You can ruin friendships. 2. You can make many people angry. And 3. It is just terrible to lie to people.
In my opinion honesty is the best policy by far. Nothing good can ever come from lying. Also I do not think that many people even like liars. People want you to be honest and If they are true friends than they will not be mad at you forever. Telling the truth will also get you out of trouble. If Mathilde had just told her friend that she had lost the necklace than she would not be in debt for ten years. I once had an experience with bad coming from lying. I had told my mom that my grades in school were great but they were not. Then she saw my report card and my grades were terrible. I knew they were bad but I did not tell her. She said If i did not lie to her then I would not be in trouble. In a way this truth did more harm than good for me. I was grounded and that was the harm but it was still good so I know for next time to do better in school. So I say tell the truth. If I had the choice to tell the truth and potentially ruin a friendship or not tell the truth and be in an undesirable situation I would tell the truth. If you were in an uncomfortable situation with your friend it would not be the same. If they were a true friend then they would stay your friend and forgive you. For example if a friend took something from you and they were honest I would forgive them. If they were not telling the truth it would be doing mental harm to them and they would not like the situation they are in. So in my opinion honesty is the best policy and always tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteI honestly believe honesty is the best policy. Nobody likes a liar and staying honest is a great way to keep good relationships and aquaintances. In this blog response i will be giving you my view on honesty.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I feel that all relationships are based on trust. If I cant trust you I do not want to be associated with you. A big part of trust, in my opinion, has everything to do with honesty. For example if you lied to me behind my back about about something and then I found out I would not trust you as much as I used to. If you continue to lie to me, my trust for you will slowly deplete until it is no longer existent. That is one reason why you should always be honest.
Another reason why you should always be honest is so when you meet new people and make new friends they are meeting the real you. Not a fake you who lies about who they are to be something that they are not. You do not have to change yourself. If you are honest to new people you meet and they do become your friends it will be because they like the real you. So be honest to yourself.
My last reason for believing that honesty is the best best policy is that being honest now could help you in the future. For instance if you go for a job interview and lie on your resume and get the job. When you go to work on your first day and you do not know what your doing the boss could fire you and that goes on your record. Not only that but if people know you as a dishonest person they may not trust you with certain things and may not like to be around you as much. As opposed to if they knew you were honest they would trust you with those things and could become friends with you. People have even been known to get rewarded for their honesty.
That is why I believe that honesty is the best policy. So stay honest and be true to yourself.
I believe honesty is the best policy. I used to act differently in my actions though. In 7th grade I lied a lot about my grades and got away with it for a little bit but in the end i got in much more trouble. I lied and hid my grades but once the end of the marking period came i was caught. I was grounded for several months. It was definitely the worst thing i could have done. It got even worse after that. My parents couldn't trust me after that and I knew my trust would be a hard thing to earn back at that point. Mathilde wasn't smart going about her situation. She could have made her entire life easier if she told the truth. She decided to take the matter into her own hands and buy a new necklace but since it was so expensive it took ten years to pay off. If she told the truth she wouldn't have much of a problem because the necklace was fake. I would rather tell the truth and be in a undesirable situation then lie and potentially ruin a friendship because you can still redeem yourself if you tell the truth. When you lie the person no longer has a reason to trust you and will think twice about anything the would ever tell you because you haven't done anything to earn their trust. Anything you say or do no matter how big or small can impact how the person sees you.
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