Has anybody ever heard or does anybody practice Radical Honesty?
I first came across this term in a television show (Lie to me, if you're curious) and later discovered a few people who actually live their lives showing radical honesty.
It is where you basically think out loud, everything you say is total honesty, despite what the truth may be.
I don't know, that Blanton guy has a point. If everyone would be redical honest the world would be way better, however, if there is only a group of people being radical honest, it isn't going to work. If only such a world would exist, imagine, you never had to lock anything... If something was stolen, you'd just ask on tv or something: ''Who did it?'' and someone would go to a police station and confess.
Ah sure arjan, it would be practical in that sense. But what about the mothers who don't love their children blurting out "I've never loved you" when their kid says "I love you" for the first time?
People who are so thin-skinned as to be offended by the truth are weaklings.
Almost EVERYONE would get offended by being told the complete and absolute truth, all the time. Think about it. People would always be telling you exactly what they think of you whenever they see you. I mean seriously...
Radical Honesty...there's a disorder that prevents Radical Honesty from being kept at bay by your mind's morality or emotional knowledge about what to really say. To quote Three-Dog: "Bringing you the truth: no matter how bad it hurts!"
If everybody was completed honest, the world would become completely corrupt even though telling the truth is the exact opposite of corrupt. Think about it, if somebody asks you something like "do I look good?" and you thinking they don't would cause the person too hate you and that would happen with everyone.
I've seen the invention of lying. It seems that everything went fine for them and when the guy lies people's lives start to go bad. It was kinda funny how they didn't lie at all.
"I would marry you but then our children would be chubby and snout nosed."
XD it was something like that. But because no one lied many people were really swallow and only thought of the best for their children through genetics and not about people's personality. Another one was
"You're going to have the salad, because we both know that one day you're going to lose your looks.
People who are so thin-skinned as to be offended by the truth are weaklings.
Almost EVERYONE would get offended by being told the complete and absolute truth, all the time. Think about it. People would always be telling you exactly what they think of you whenever they see you. I mean seriously...
Solution: Grow a spine. Suck it up. Get on with life. If even a few people started doing that, it might catch on, and then we might just have *gasp* strong people who don't whine about hot coffee being hot or the fact that they actually have to work at a job or realize that the word "black" is not a pejorative. Why, that kind of person may even have the cojones to get off their tail and stop the downward trend that this country and the world is on, and they would definitely put all the lawyers who specialize in frivolous bovine excrement out of work.
I would exhibit more radical honesty along those lines here, but I don't want to get off topic. Suffice it to say, I am rather disappointed with most of humanity right now.
