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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
My mom taught me that you do not lie but there is no reason to go around babbling all the truth either.

So did mine. Also, I learned that there's a difference between "what I think" and "the truth."

People on the internet often say, when challenged, "It's the truth!" about situations that are questions of opinion, values, or even metaphor, rather than truth or falsehood.

"It was imprudent of Donald Trump to refer to Omarosa Manigault as 'a dog'."
"But it's the truth!"

44 posted on 08/18/2018 12:38:09 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick
Exactly.

Many people think they are being truthful when they are giving their opinion and are framing it in the most hurtful way possible.

Kindness, the most under rated of virtues (IMHO) demands that we attempt to be gentle with other people.

Of course sometimes that is either not possible or will not get the job done.

If I tell the repair person that the washing machine is ok when it is leaking like a sieve then I am not going to get the machine fixed.

To get the job done I have to tell him that it is leaking. However adding that he is the most incompetent repair person I have ever met is not necessary and might not even be true.

49 posted on 08/18/2018 12:54:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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