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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8705151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DISHONESTY OF MISLEADING SILENCE COLLUSION 870515 To lie is to say something which you know is not true. To be silent in misleading ways is not technically to lie; but it can be part of a systematic cultural pattern which is a lie to the next generation. When a culture systematically is silent in ways which mislead young people to believe falsehoods as truths, and to believe truths to be false, then the culture is being dishonest in a way which is a systematic lie. Collusive cultures make it taboo to be open and honest; make it mandatory to be silent in misleading ways, to lie through silence. To promote both personal and communal integrity we must demand more of ourselves than that we not explicitly communicate statements we know to be false. It is not enough to avoid telling explicit lies. We must avoid behaviors (including patterns of neglect) which implicitly communicate misleading perceptions as part of an addictive process. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================