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Philosophy of Boy Who Cried Wolf

Everyones heard the tale of the Boy who cried Wolf right? Sure, shepherd boy thinks he's funny, makes a fuss about imaginary wolfs, villagers come running - no wolf. Then when wolfs actually do come, he yells and screams, yet villagers weren't about to play his game again, his sheep get nailed by the wolves. Moral of the story.

"Liars are not believed even when they tell the truth"

The reasons people are less than truthful are many, they do it because they lack the courage to say what they think, they do it because they are comfortable in their pretensions, and they do it because they are insecure.

I spent a long time asking myself why should people be straight up, what moral ...

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describe it? Is it a goal to strive for? A gut feeling? An instinct to pass on your interpretation of events without deviation?

Who knows exactly?

All I know is that I hold it high, and I refuse to abnegate this belief for anyone, better yet I expect people to follow suit. Never am I more disconcerted than if someone I trust has lied to me, to my face, how dare they?

Why do we feel this way? because we just do?...Neh.. To easy, because society demands that we do? No, I don't feel bad if someone's lied to me because society says they shouldn't.

No, I feel bad because I've been betrayed. I trusted them to be like me and they weren't. I trusted them to hold the same set of beliefs that I do, and they didn't. Yet the only way I can expect that of them is if I have a sure fire justification that my way is right...but I don't so where am I? Who knows?

Is honesty some common unspoken societal belief? Or spawned of some religious base? Or are people only honest because ...

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Added: 11/10/2011 10:42:56 PM
Submitted By: sai_spark
Category: Philosophy
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