Unit 2: Honesty is the Best Policy

Unit 2: Honesty is the Best Policy

Honesty is a value that has usually been learned in the family, school, and Church. This important value has a lot of advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, truth hurts others, and people even do not want to know the truth for not getting upset with that person who is telling the truth. However, it is better to be honest with people. Due to the fact that practicing we will earn everybody’s respect. After finishing reading some definitions of honesty, the one I can give you, or let’s say, the best one for this particular context is this:

Honesty is a fundamental moral value used to establish interpersonal relationships based on confidence, sincerity and mutual respect. The good thing about being honest is that people keep positive ideals about who we are. However, many people do not like because of the fear of being judged. Most importantly, as human beings we have to be aware there are good and bad people, thus, honest people exist, so liars do as well; black must also exist in order to contrast.

Moreover, people normally trust honest people. For this reason, all those who want to become reliable for others and consequently be told the truth as well, should always tell the truth. That is to say that being honest, society as well as our families will have confidence and feel that they can rely on us.

There are many forms of not being honest, one of them is when details are omitted or avoided. This is the most common form of being dishonest. The other form is when you make up lies in order to favor someone or achieve something. So, let’s try not to lie to ourselves thinking we are being honest only because we do not tell lies. Even if we fear the consequences of telling truth or feel nothing will be the same as before someone knows something you have to let his or her know, yet, this is not a reason to lie. On the other hand, we have to accept any possible outcome and try to deal with it as soon as can before circumstances get worse.