Truth and Honesty
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We Need to Make the Commitment to Telling the Truth to be a Way of Building Both Understanding and Trust in Conflicted Settings for Us as a Country
We need Truth to be the underlying expectation for that process for each of us and we need each of us to learn to be absolutely honest with ourselves about both the commitment we’re making and our faith and our personal ability and integrity in actually doing it.
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We Owe it to Ourselves to Tell the Truth to Each Other
We owe it to ourselves as a country to make telling the truth our personal commitment and our mutual agreement and understanding, and our basic and foundational approach to sharing information and to communicating directly with one another.
Telling the truth can help us survive as a people and a nation.
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Truth Should Be Our Commitment and Our Goal
Do we want to tell our children who are living in a world of angry lies that we gave up on Truth as a community and as a nation without giving truth a chance?
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We Once Took Great Pride in Telling The Truth
For much of our history as a nation, we took great pride in telling the truth.
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Lying Is Not Allowed
Truth has logistical value. Leaders who want their organization to thrive can benefit by making truth an expectation for everyone on their team.
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How Do Good People Look Into The Camera and Lie, and Clearly Feel No Guilt or Remorse?
One of the most interesting political phenomena we are seeing today in our country is that almost every day, otherwise credible people from our political parties look directly into the camera and say things that are clearly not true.
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The Fragility of Civility
Civility is fragile.
We have seen a sad and painful level of deterioration in the level of civility and courtesy in far too many political settings in our country today — and we probably ought to recognize that the deterioration in civil behavior is due, in large part, to an increasing invocation and activation of our most basic and primal “Us/Them” instinctive delineation in those settings.
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