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%DISHONESTY FORMS DENIAL AFFIRMATION IGNORANCE+970904
%PRIVATE LIFE-STYLE INTIMACY LOVE SEX SIN 970904
Dishonesty takes many forms, not all of which are
overt forms such as deliberately making false statements.
Covert forms of dishonesty entail misleading behaviors
which encourage others to assume something to be true
which is not in fact true---such as in failing to correct
another person who has assumed and said that something is
true about you --- when it is not true. But what is one
to do when people make public statements about your
private behavior --- based upon false assumptions? Is
one to surrender one's own privacy for the sake of
defending the truth? Is one to hand to other people the
tools for assaulting one's own privacy when they make
false statements about one's own private life, so as to
force one to say things about one's own private life to
defend the truth? Who then is to blame for the false
impressions that persist about one's own private life?
There are other occasions when (for lack of time,
energy and opportunity) one fails to correct false
impressions which people express. In some such occasions
the failure to offer corrections play a significant role
in contributing to dishonesty. It is worse, however when
one contributes overtly to promoting ignorance, confusion
and/or prejudice --- and later excuses one's self for
saying things which are not accurate, clear or free of
bias --- due to one's own ignorance, confusion and/or
prejudice which one's own behaviors had contributed to.
Sometimes people think themselves to be honest
because they do not go around making false statements ---
but do go around in denial of true statements which other
people have made which are experiences that are
threatening to one's own collusive games of mutual self-
deception. It is dishonest to systematically be in denial
in tacit ways about embarrassing truths --- even if there
is no overt denial of any truths. Refusing to
acknowledge important truths can be dishonest even in the
absence of any overt denial.
When we fail to recognize the many forms of
dishonesty we may think that people who are contributing
to a climate of dishonesty are honest people. When we do
so, we, ourselves, contribute to the climate of dishonesty
which prevents us from dealing effectively with the
threats to our personal and communal integrity.
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