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Where Is Honesty Going?
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I sometimes hear a standard question asked with different subjects in it. Where are they going? Where is our youth going? So on and so forth. But something that I have wondered about is our declining use of honesty.
I've read a lot of questions on here regarding honesty, and the lack of it. People now more than ever are relying on the illusion of looking right, rather than just being right, to survive in life.
It makes no sense to me. People are working twice as hard to weave a story, when taking about half that time to tell the truth results in a better overall outcome. Some examples for you:
A employee is late for an assignment. His employer wants to know why. He says that it's because of a traffic accident that took up three lanes on the freeway. The employer, who has suspected for some time that this employee has been lying, looks up the area described on a traffic web site and discovers there was no such accident. The employer wants to know why the employee lied. The employee is now out of a job.
A girl in a relationship is secretly visiting with her previous beau. They are not having sex yet, but they are kissing, holding hands and touching each other. She is caught at lunch time by her boyfriend. They are only eating lunch at this point, but the boyfriend is of course concerned. She says they were just catching up and discussing a mutual friend who is in trouble with the law and how they can help. Boyfriend lets it go. Then two months later, when the boyfriend comes home from work early and finds she is not home, he calls around to her friends. They don't know where she is, but one of them mentions a detail regarding the ex-flame.
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He again becomes suspicious, and decides to head out to where the ex lives. He doesn't find them there, but on the way home, he sees them at a sidewalk cafe kissing and holding hands under the table. When she comes home in the early evening, she is met by her boyfriend and a baseball bat.
An elevator repair person skips over an inspection because they want to make it to a basketball game early. They sign off on the paperwork. The next week, the elevator cart falls five floors. One person is killed, four are severly injured. Upon investigation, it is found that the repair person should have caught that the electronic panel was failing, and had an error message that had been running for three weeks.
This is just a sample of some of the most egregious crimes of our time. You can call them gloss overs, little white somethings, but no matter how you cut it, these are out and out lies. Lying is a major factor in everything in our society. Be it the prices you pay for products, to people who apply for jobs they are no where near qualified for. It appears that despite what value people claim to have for honesty, the reserve is what they really admire. Charities that actually spend more money on expenses and salaries then they take in exist. And they are still being called charities!
Politicians who claim to be against earmarks (money taken from our country's general fund and placed into an added article to a bill being passed in congress, sometimes used as a 'payoff' for a particular politician's vote on the bill) are aligning earmarks at an alarming rate!
Insurance companies are claiming they are keeping our rates for policies as low as possible, meanwhile they act as a bureaucratic state and use nine people to process one claim! This trickles all the way down to our level, where partners are cheating and stealing from us, and being blatantly dishonest in many situations that don't even make sense.
In other words, many people are lying just to lie. They don't even have an excuse, they just lie because they have programmed themselves to do it so often, it now just happens.
This is a situation critical event. People need to be thinking about what steps are needed to fix this overwhelming problem. It leads into so many of our other problems, that it makes sense to solve the one for the others.
It's bad when simply asking someone what they did today elicit a response that is so far from the truth there isn't even a point to them talking.
Where is honesty going?
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