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Honesty

08/04/2012

I saw a quote from a person saying that a candidate was the “most honest” person he knew. When I first read this, I shrugged it off as being the usual hyperbole of campaigns. After a while, it started to bug me because it reminded me of a 2nd grader saying, “I’ll be your most bestest friend”.

Can someone really be the “most honest”? Isn’t honesty a binary state? Aren’t we either honest or not? If someone is brutally honest to the point of rudeness, doesn’t that cross another line and become a bad trait? Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure I’ve used the phrase before but never in a public statement. And, looking back, it’s something I should have retracted.

Honesty isn’t something to be taken lightly. If I were to vouch for a person on the point of honesty, I’d have to be damn well sure of it. It couldn’t come from casual contact nor here-say. I’d need a boatload of facts to back it up.

So, the next time you encounter the phrase, be wary. Like the saying goes, “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is”.

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