50 posts 2/20/2024 9:06 am
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"Life is a matter of really tough choices." ~ Joe Biden
"Why Honesty Is Often Difficult
Telling the truth is important, even when it hurts"
'When feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual. But it's no less important.
Sometimes telling the truth is difficult, because it can mean sacrificing something one genuinely wants or needs.
It's easy to convince oneself that a small lie is harmless, but cheating is a slippery slope.
“Could you describe a time when you told the truth and it hurt you?”
I wish I could say I came up with this interview question. It gets right to the heart of why honesty is often difficult, which is that telling the truth can mean sacrificing something you genuinely want or need.
But I’d be lying if I did.
Right now, talking about honesty might feel old-fashioned. The pandemic and its ripple effects of anxiety and stress may seem like a license to prioritize our wants and needs over our oughts and shoulds. In particular, more than a few students and parents I’ve spoken with in recent months told me that until this crisis is behind us, it should be okay to cheat a little on homework and exams. And nationwide, reports of cheating at college since the advent of the pandemic have skyrocketed.
New research shows that, indeed, students who report higher levels of distress, sadness, and other negative emotions tend to adopt more generous attitudes toward plagiarism, which in turn predicts actually committing more plagiarism.
In other words, when you’re feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual.
Yet I think it’s just as important. At Character Lab, we include honesty as a strength of heart, in the same family as kindness and gratitude. Like other strengths of heart, honesty helps us relate to other people in positive ways. But when it comes to forming judgments about other people, research suggests that nothing is more important than moral character.
It is perhaps for this reason that a student I know well went out of her way to show me her transcript from last semester. With pride, she pointed out her statistics grade—which was noticeably lower than the others. “It was an incredibly hard class,” she explained. “And so many students cheated, working together on the exams even though the professor told us not to. I did my own work. The grade sucks, but I did the right thing.”
Don’t underestimate the influence of stress on every aspect of behavior, including honesty. Decisions to do the right thing are more difficult when you feel like you’re struggling.
Do raise the topic of honesty with the young people in your life. Tell a story about a time when you told the truth and it hurt you—and perhaps a time when you failed to be truthful and regretted it. And be honest about being honest. It can be hard to hold fast to our principles—yet imperative that we try.' Angela Duckworth Ph.D., from Psychology Today Posted February 1, 2022
If you need ME to give you examples of Biden's record of perjurious, fallacious actions over the course of his career, then I suggest you NOT post a response, as they are well documented and plentiful.
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620 posts 2/20/2024 9:07 am |
The TRUTH HURTS, as the saying goes...
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10778 posts 2/20/2024 9:22 am |
lol best ATTEMPT AT WHITE-WASHING EVER ,, too funny !
maybe learn how to write a readable post first ?
and don't hide your asinine politics behind innocent students
1benquick replies on 2/20/2024 5:20 pm:
'Lying to me, lying to yourself, and on your way to getting a reputation as a liar...' |
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1445 posts 2/20/2024 9:49 am |
"Life is a matter of really tough choices." ~ Joe Biden
The above statement by biden has
nothing to do with him or his term
as president.
The statement was made in 2010 an
was regarding a tax compromise made
by Obama.
Unqualified assumptions . . implied by
statements taken completely out of
context . . Do you ever mention honesty
in your conversations with yourself??
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32 posts 2/20/2024 10:41 am |
Meanwhile, in reality, Trump was just fined over $350 million for committing fraud, and in response lies about it claiming it to be political persecution. Fox News settled for three quarters of a billion dollars for lying to their viewers about Dominion, and is staring down an even bigger settlement with Smartmatic.
That's not even getting into the Trump administration's 'Alternative Facts.' Remember Kellyanne Conway getting called out for lying on national television?
Projection is a hell of a thing.
1benquick replies on 2/20/2024 5:32 pm:
AH, the classic 'what aboutism'...when people ALLOW those that are running for elected office to outwardly lie, indiscriminately,and look the other way, that's what you get,more liars that seek a job where it's okay to lie, it's the EASY way out, especially in times of high stress and desperation. But, then, politicians are NEVER faced with those situations, or is it that voters just give them a pass when they DO lie, by justifying it because they're politicians. You ever held a job, and had a Boss or the Owner of the business call you on the carpet and grill you about a topic that you're well aware of and lie to his face about what you know, and get to keep your job once the Boss or owner found out you lied to them? |
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1445 posts 2/20/2024 11:42 am |
New research shows that, indeed, students who report higher levels of distress, sadness, and other negative emotions tend to adopt more generous attitudes toward plagiarism, which in turn predicts actually committing more plagiarism.
Speaking of "plagiarism", it seems that the
writer of this blog borrowed the content of his
text from a psychology today web site. None
of which was intended as a commentary on biden
or politics, but about human honesty 101.
Angela Duckworth Ph.D., from Psychology Today Posted February 1, 2022
Lying is a political instrument for getting elected
an staying viable, is a tool of the trade. If a
politicians mouth is moving, their honesty is
consider measurable. benquick has no original
thoughts on honesty just what he can copy an
paste.
1benquick replies on 2/20/2024 5:15 pm:
And it APPEARS QUITE clearly that that 'uncommon1' doesn't understand that when you provide the author's name, and the date that the article was posted in 'Psychology Today'that it's NOT 'plagiarism' as the BLOG was in quotes from start to finish, providing the reader, if he/she is educated enough to realize, that the post was CREDITED to the original author. But I love the vehement responses from all the leftist defender of the LIAR and chief, basically stating that "it's okay if our guy LIES, all politicians do it"...and I suppose that that's how you and all the rest raise your children, "Yeah, go ahead! Lie, cheat, steal, everybody does it especially in times of high stress and desperation, you know, like the politicians ALL DO! It's a 'tool of the trade', kids..." |
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10778 posts 2/20/2024 5:23 pm |
looks like sir-steffie to me !
what are those lies you have 'proof' of ?
1benquick replies on 2/22/2024 11:37 am:
Looks like a Dick with ears, to me.Do your own research, Leftist! And remember, 'Stupid is as stupid does...'Forrest Gump (from the movie 'Forrest Gump' for uncommon1 and any others that don't understand what plagiarism is... |
1benquick replies on 2/24/2024 4:42 am:
msfunfor, for dems like yourself that keep their head in the sand about their fearful 'leader' and his perjurious, fallacious, habits,the internet provides a multitude of he devious lies throughout his 50 plus years of addressing the American people with what I'm sure he considers, his 'downhome' stories. Show proof that he 'marched with Dr. King' in the sixties, as he's claimed, that he had a job driving an 18 wheeler one summer, that he graduated in the top half of his law class, that he graduates the University of Delaware with 3 degrees, that he was offered a 'scholarship to the Naval Academy, or that he played on the Delaware Football team that traveled to Ohio beat Ohio University's Bobcats, in what was his sophomore year of college.And, OH YES, 'they're 'HARMLESS' miss-recollections of bygone days of the FEEBLE minded old FOOL, 'STRETCHERS' as they were known to be back when I was a young child.There are two problems with his 'STRETCHERS', one, is that he BELIEVES them, EMPHATICALLY, and defends them when called on the carpet about them, to the point where he gets angry, further frustrated, and lashes out at anyone that questions them (or him) the the point of screaming at those questioning him (THINK of his argument with the factory worker when Biden told the man he was 'full of shit' and when the worker said, "You're working for me, man!' Biden responded "I'm not working for you!'in a moment of angry distress and frustration. As a campaigning politician, isn't he 'working for every American', msfunfor?
Then there's his 2022 Teacher of the Year ceremony hosted by the White House where he states a quote ' that school children don’t belong to parents “when they’re in the classroom.'They’re all our children. And the reason you’re the teachers of the year is because you recognize that. They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re like yours when they’re in the classroom,” he said.Yet, he refused to acknowledge Hunter's illegitimate daughter, Navy Joan, or mention that she was, in fact, his GRAND DAUGHTER until 2023, a FULL four years after the DNA tests came back positive that Hunter (you remember Hunter, right? The old Fool stated "He's the smartest guy I know...") is the father, and gave this SPEECH about 'every child' in 2022, three years after the DNA revelation. Guess Navy Joan doesn't count as 'somebody else's child', huh?Oh, and I know, there will be more of your sarcastic DRIVEL regarding ANY and all of these examples, and lament how it has nothing to do with what he does, politically, etc.but that's the second point of the matter, IT DOES! He represents what is SUPPOSED to be WHO the leader of our great nation is! He's not 'MARK TWAIN', he would make a poor PIMPLE on Mark Twain's ASS regarding the 'yarns' he's spun in his lifetime as an American Politician drawing his yearly salaries from the taxes of hard working Americans that HE claims he doesn't work for. He's a HACK, a 'Walter Mitty'dreamer that's stumbled and bumbled his way through a LIFELONG career in American politics because folks like you, give him a pass for his one attribute that he does exceptionally well, LYING...nobody lives a life free from telling lies, NOBODY. But I won't hang my hat on the head of a guy that goes out of his way to lie to folks because HE thinks it makes him look good to those he's lying too. And the bigger the lie, the more he believes it, himself. and as the article I posted in the BLOG stated, in times of stress and desperation, the tendency is to lie, or cheat, or steal. 'Telling the truth is important, even when it hurts"
'When feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual. But it's no less important.
Sometimes telling the truth is difficult, because it can mean sacrificing something one genuinely wants or needs.
It's easy to convince oneself that a small lie is harmless, but cheating is a slippery slope.' |
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