Importance Of Honesty

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The first time I learned about the implication of the word honesty in fourth grade as I began to understand the consequences of not telling the truth. My lying stage began with vegetables. Never would I consume anything that was not fruit, ice cream, or pizza; therefore, it was my ultimate goal to figure out a strategy to avoid discovering the taste of the next new veggie that would end up on my dinner plate. Eventually, I figured out that napkins and the garbage can were my way out of my family’s policy ─ no one leaves the dinner table until all food has been consumed. My parents never caught me in the act of throwing away countless amounts of vegetables, but one day, I forgot to make my broccoli disappear. Unfortunately, this time my mom …show more content…

To turn honesty into a positive attribution to society, individuals must comprehend and accept the term for what it truly insinuates. According to the Webster’s dictionary, honesty is the quality or fact of being honest while employing integrity, which translates into acting truthful while considering moral principles and individual character. Just as a coin possesses two sides, the word honesty consists of two sections (truths and lies), and what holds these sides together to form the coin is integrity. Individuals must evaluate each situation and determine which side the coin of honesty should land on. The honesty coin starts to fall apart when individuals begin to justify the fact that people have the ability to encompass integrity while lying. This statement becomes easily contradictable when the words origin is included into the definition. According to the Webster’s online, honesty originates from the Latin word honestus which means honor. Throughout time individuals stopped affiliating the word honesty with honor, but it is a key component of the word’s meaning as the Webster’s dictionary states that honor is to regard to something or someone with great respect. The choice to be honest or not shall encompass honor and integrity as honesty was meant to signify more than just simply telling the

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