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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Final Thoughts...
To what extent is openness
and complete honesty the best policy? Should you ever withhold information
until a later time? Is there a limit to what should be shared? Is telling the
truth too late the same as lying? Discuss this topic using appropriate evidence
from what you've read, observed, or experienced.
Being honest and open allows people to trust each other. The person who you confide in and talk to being honest allows you to get help with whatever problem you have. Perfect example if Frankenstein would have just gone ahead and tell
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ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty is the best policy only when necessary. It is necessary only when asked and when withholding the truth puts others at risk. Once you tell the truth you may as well tell the entire truth leaving out the slightest detail may be dangerous. Telling the truth too late is not because in all fairness you told the truth. The U.S. Government revives threats on a daily basis they do not alert the public every single time because it questions the safety of the people. If someone truly believes that they can withhold the truth while keeping the safety of others, then by all means do so.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and Honesty is the best policy when the occasion is appropriate and not used with the intention of hurting someone. It is best to not withhold any information because if you do people won't trust you, and when people don't trust you, they give you the title "liar". Is this the case?- No, just because you don't tell someone something does not mean your lying it just meant you kept a secret. This reminds me, of when I went to the movies with a girl. We ended up leaving the movie to go to a nearby restaurant. After the date was over and I got home my mom said "Did you have fun?", I said "yes" and that was that. Now, I was not lying because I did not tell my mom I went to the restaurant, the question was "Did you have fun" and I answered; therefore holding back information is not lying. However, this does not mean, it isn't considered as lying.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty is always the best policy and it is never okay to withhold information from others. By keeping secrets, a person is only digging themselves a greater hole and by telling the truth, whether good or bad, trust is gained. And although some tend to live by the quote "Better late than never", waiting a long period of time to release the truth is the same as lying. The entire of period of time that went by before telling the truth was a lie.
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ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty is the best policy most of the time. You should not judge the truth by whether the holder lied or not because ,as the saying goes, the truth hurts. In some situations, it is in everyones best interest to withhold the truth for later or forever. I remember reading a book about a athlete taking steroids to perform better on the football field. When his friend found out, he withheld the information from everyone because he knew that it would break his mother's heart. He talked to his friend instead and forced him to stop. Withholding the truth is considered lying but if you want to lie, lie for a good cause.
ReplyDeleteBeing open helps with more trust being put out there. You should only withhold information when it is absolutely necessary or when you feel like it's for the best. There is a limit to what should be shared depending on the person you are sharing with. Such as when speaking to a teacher, be limited. Telling the truth too late isn't the same thing as lyinf because a lie is when you tell someone something to deliberately deceive them. In the text Frankenstein withholds information but he didn't lie.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty is great to use, but only at certain times. Being open and honest helps you to create a good relationship with a friend , family member or people younger or older than you. By being open and honest also helps you gain a good amount of trust with some people, but you do not always want to be open to every single person because you do not know what that person is all about, by saying this you don't know if he or she is a good person or not
ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty is the best policy majority of the time but one must use discretion. There is a time and place for everything and sometimes things should be left unsaid. Information should be withheld until later under certain circumstances to spare hurt feelings. There is definitely a limit on what should be shared. If what is being told is not benefiting the person, and is just hurting their feelings it does not need to be said. If people just shared everything they thought without any discretion it could come off harsh. Telling the truth too late is not like lying because when you lie you know for a fact that what you are saying isn't truthful but both telling the truth too late and lying aren't very helpful acts.
ReplyDeleteAlthough honesty is the best policy, there are certain exceptions to this "rule". Withholding the truth, in certain situations, can help in more ways than not. During the Christmas holiday, many individuals are forced to decide between honesty and withholding the truth. Most choose to withhold the truth for the sake of conserving childhood. This decision is not wrong and sets a limitation to "honesty is the best policy". Revealing the truth late is not lying. As the quote says, "better late than never". Openness and honesty has its advantages, however, it is not imperative in certain instances.
ReplyDeleteHonesty is always the best policy. When one withholds the truth to save either themselves of for a later time to avoid consequences or the repercussions, he or she does themselves an injustice. Although "the truth may hurt" at times and at that moment, it is better to deal with it then at at the moment then to let it build up and get worse. When Victor withheld the truth about the monsters existence and the monster's wrongdoing, it resulted in Justine's death. If he had told the truth it would have saved Justine's life and could have ended the monster's life at an early stage. When one hold's in the truth it can led to self-destruction.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and complete honesty is always the best policy. One should not withhold information until a latter time, but in some occasions, sometimes it is best that one should withhold information, especially in an "sticky" situation. if one is an open-minded person, then there is no limit to what should be shared. "I have lately been so deeply engaged in one occupation....My dear Victor, what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that matter. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?" (Shelley, 54-55). After Victor finally finished his creation he was dismayed by the appearance causing him to go into a sickness on which Henry became suspicious of. Victor did not tell him why he was acting in such a crazy manner. Years down the line, he withheld the creature existence until Elizabeth's death caused him to go to a magistrate to reveal the creature's existence. Telling the truth too late is not lying but it can have the same effects as lying. Telling the truth too late can cause one to get into deep trouble.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and honesty are always the best policies. Withholding the truth until a later time is the exact same as lying. With each act, one is being dishonest and untruthful. No matter the situation at hand, it is always wrong to tell a lie or hide the truth from another individual. Doing either only worsens the situation and could possibly result a cruel consequence.
ReplyDeleteNo, honestly is not always the best policy. The truth "should" always be used, but doing so will not always produce a decent out come. Sometimes, telling the truth will hurt the listener in a way that is irreversible and avoidable simply with silence. Truth can hurt. Truth can destroy in way not speaking will never be able to reach. However, waiting to tell the truth isnt exactly lying but in a certain light its worst. Holding in information, waiting for a certain situation or "the right moment" can make things even worst for the people involved especially because they know you knew. All this comes from experience.
ReplyDeleteOpenness and complete honesty is usually best policy however there are also some circumstance that it could not work. Even though Withhold the information is considering as putting some body at risk or loosing trust, but in medical field sometimes withhold information from the patient would properly extend their life or preventing them from having negative thought about life. And yes there is a limit to what should be share in daily life as well as in work. Because sharing too much information could cause a problem for oneself as well as for other.
ReplyDeleteHonesty is almost the best way to handle a situation. When you are in a position where you have to chose between lying and telling the truth, you should always tell the truth unless put into a life or death situation. If a childs over weight mother asks their child if they are fat, and the child responds with a no, this could be dangerous for the mother. The mother could continue on with her poor eating habits and obtain several diseases and die. Withholding the truth until a later time is somewhat the same as lying. No, You should never hold information until later time because the information could become vital once its acknowledged.
ReplyDeleteThe extent to which openness and complete honesty is the best policy is when people's lives hang in the balance. If people can not die from the lie or withheld truth it is not always necessary to tell the truth. Holding the truth until a later date is not a bad thing, it can give time to do things in the future to change the truth. Although withholding it too long and not saying anything would be a lie. If telling the truth is a problem that will never be fixed, it is better to stay away from the topics and keep away from trouble. " It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night." (Shelley 378). " I will be with you on your wedding-night...yet I thought of my beloved Elizabeth." (Shelley 379). Frankenstein knew that not only would he be in danger, but Elizabeth also. This is when he should have told her the truth, he instead withheld the truth too long and caused consequences. Since Frankenstein could not control the subject of the monster, he should have told the truth from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteI am indifferent as to whether honesty and complete openness is {always} the best policy or whether it's not. Honesty is passive while openness is active. Sometimes giving a straight-forward response could be considered honesty unless a lie was included. But complete openness is truth, whole truth, nothing but the truth. With that said, sometimes 'just honesty' is definitely not the way to go. In a situation in which one chose honesty over complete openness could be if someone looked "decent" and they ask does my hair look nice? Honesty would be "yes", whereas complete openness would be "yes, but you need to fix...". Choosing 'just honesty' could ruin the other person's day by not openly letting them know how they look
ReplyDeleteThat is a hard question to answer. Yes, it is morally right to be honest yet the truth can hurt you. The whole issue of whether or not honesty is always the best policy is a double-edged sword: the truth can set you free yet there are things that are better left unsaid. One thing that comes to mind is the movie Men in Black 3 when Agent J realized why Agent K had become so somber. He kept asking everyone what caused him to be so somber yet the only response was "Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to". He discovered towards the end of the film that K had become so somber because he had watched J's father die which hurt K beyond belief. He would never have had to experience that heartbreak if he had never found out what happened to his father. In conclusion, there is no clear answer to this question. It all depends on circumstances.
ReplyDeleteHonesty is always the best route to go even if you are hurting someones feeling in the end they will say at least she was honest and didnt lie . No with holding information too late is not lying because if you intended on telling that person and they came at you first you were not lying just looking for the right time . Also there is no limit on telling the truth if you do not think it will change anything or effect anything
ReplyDeleteBeing honest is always good to do. Put it like this would you rather be lied to and find out the truth later or find out the truth right then ans there? Now holding information in is not bad but is not good at all. Because what if that person was looking for the truth at the time but you couldn't give it to them, do you expect them to want to know after a situation happened? Sometimes you have to put yourself in others shoes to know what its like. So choosing honesty and not withholding the truth back is always the right thing.
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