(July 21, 2015 at 2:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: As for honesty, I like gentle honesty, and dislike both white lies and brutal honesty. I have a friend who is brutally honest, and though I like her very much, I would find living with her wearing.
To give a stylized example to distinguish between white lies, gentle truth, and brutal truth:
White lie: That shirt looks fine with those trousers.
Gentle truth: I don't care for that shirt with those trousers; please wear a different combination.
Brutal truth: Are you fucking insane? That shirt with those trousers? That is the ugliest combination I have ever seen! What kind of dumb fuck are you? Have you no sense of taste at all?
If I get to choose, I will take gentle truth every time. And that is what I get from my wife, and what I give her as well.
lol. I guess you call brutal truth, what I call, being sort of an asshole, but I see what you mean. I’d say brutal truth, is just being as truthful as you can.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
