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- From: orc@sybase.com (Orc)
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.204616.23077@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Ambiguity
- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:46:16 GMT
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- In article <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >An example: How many of you out there have said that you would meet
- >someone at a particular place at a particular time, but then been
- >late? If you have, then you have broken your word -- you have been
- >_dishonest_. I don't mean to attach any moral judgement here -- it is
- >not good or bad, but merely a fact.
-
- Right.
-
- Doesn't the word dishonest imply an intent to deceive? If I
- agree to meet someone, but the train I'm on is taken out of service
- and I have to wait for another one, and thus show up late, I don't
- really see that I'm intentionally deceiving someone.
-
- There are a lot of unspoken assumptions about arrangements like
- that. When you say you're gonna meet someone, the fine print
- includes such things as "if I'm not delayed, that is" along with
- notification clauses.
-
-
- ____
- david parsons \bi/ orc@sybase.com
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