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- From: jwall@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Wall)
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.213916.14799@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:39:16 GMT
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- In article <MARTINC.93Jan22142533@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
- >In article <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
- >
- > Having read recent posts here, and noticed events going on out there
- > in the rest of the world, I have come to the conclusion there we have
- > a major crisis on our hands.
- >
- > Basically, it seems that as a society, our concepts of honesty and
- > trust are all screwed up.
- >
- > Most people, when asked whether they consider themselves to be honest
- > say yes. And yet, when it comes down to brass tacks, most people are
- > _not_ particularly honest. In fact, they are absolutely lousy at
- > keeping their word.
- >
- >
- >This may be a mere quibble, but what makes you think that this "crisis"
- >is a new thing? Seems I recall Marcus Aurelius and Socrates bitching
- >about the same thing.
-
- You're right but it's one of those things that seems more obvious and
- important at certain times. Kinda like politics during the election year.
- Nobody talks much about it the other three years, but that fourth year
- watch out its on everybodies mind, it even crept into soc.singles.
-
- Aren't you ever sitting around thinking about life and realize how screwed
- up something is. It's pretty unlikely that it just now became screwed up,
- you just happened to notice and it became mildly important to you and you
- applied some brain power to it.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Jeff Wall
-