Is Honesty Always the very best Policy?|5 Minute Video
Telling the truth is usually. Can it also in some cases be incorrect? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a successful author and distinguished scholar, discusses when sincerity isn’t the finest policy.
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Script:
Basically everyone concerns the Golden Rule– “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you”– as the best guide to ethical behavior. Did you ever consider this rule in terms of speech, in how you talk about others?
All of us acknowledge that it’s incorrect to spread untruths about people, but much of us appear to feel that it’s fine to say anything about another as long as it’s true. The reality that something is real does not imply that it is necessarily anyone else’s issue. Do you want every element of your life made understood to others– even if real?
How important is it to protect our tongues?
A lifetime of experience recommends to me that unreasonable speech is a major, not a minor, issue. I typically ask listeners at workshops I carry out on the ethics of speech: ‘How many of you can think about at least one awkward individual occurrence, that were it to become widely understood, would adversely impact your life?”
Almost all the hands go up, other than for those who have actually led extremely uninteresting lives, have bad memories, or are lying. What is perverse about humanity is that while we don’t want others to learn about such occasions in our lives, practically all of us are just aching to find out and speak about such events in the lives of others.
Let’s evaluate this further. Why exactly don’t we want people to learn about a highly humiliating episode? After all, for most of us, the deep secret that we’re hiding does not involve a criminal act. But all of us understand that if people discover this one thing, it can quickly become their main association with us and with our name.
Why is this so?
Because, what is most intriguing about individuals is what’s not so good about them. This is basically real of almost everybody. As Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author, utilized to say, “Even great individuals don’t like to check out novels about great individuals.”
If you’re thinking that what I have actually stated so far does not use to you, that you rarely speak about others, when you do your remarks are always fair, then let me position a concern and an obstacle. Can you choose twenty-four hours without stating anything unkind about anyone?
Inevitably, when I make this obstacle individuals laugh nervously. I can read their minds: “One day without any negative comments about any person?
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We all acknowledge that it’s wrong to spread untruths about individuals, however numerous of us appear to feel that it’s fine to state anything about another as long as it’s real. Why precisely do not we desire people to know about an extremely humiliating episode? We all understand that if individuals learn about this one thing, it can easily become their primary association with us and with our name.
As Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize winning author, utilized to say, “Even good individuals don’t like to read books about good people.”
Usually, when I make this difficulty people laugh nervously.
