Is+honesty+always+the+best+policy?

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What would you do?
HOW HONEST ARE YOU? You and your friends are planning a surprise birthday party for a friend of yours this Saturday. Your friend asks if you have any plans for this weekend. Would you lie to your friend? You are at a boring party and you decide to leave. The host, who isn't a very close friend, asks why you are leaving. Would you tell the truth? A friend has fallen in love with someone you don't like. Your friend asks you what you think of this person. Would you be honest with your friend? A friend has a new haircut. You think it looks terrible. Your friend asks: ''what do you think of my new haircut?' Would you answer truthfully?

Brainstorm ideas
Use these ideas to help you. a) attitudes towards lying and honesty: schools, parents, the law b) situations when you might lie to protect somebody's feelings c) situations when you might lie for other reasons (e.g. to avoid an argument) d) situations when you should tell the truth, whatever the consequences e) possible negative consequences of 'white lies' f) your personal conclusion

Divide the ideas into 4 paragraphs

Phrases
Use the phrases bellow to introduce some of your ideas in the essay. a) To sum up ... b) In addition ... c) In conclusion ... d) To begin with, it's important to ... e) On the other hand, ... f) Firstly, it's worth considering ... g) I'd like to begin by ... h) Furthermore, ... i) To summarize, then ... j) However it could be argued that ... k) An example of this would be ...

Note: When giving different points of view, avoid using I. Instead use impersonal phrases like the ones above.

Write your essays
How honest are you? Honesty is an important characteristic of every human bean. It tells us everything about a person. Now days it is very difficult to find a person to which you can trust in every sense. But some people lie to protect a person, some people lie because it is theirs characteristic, some people are used to it and for them it became an every day routine.

In addiction to this I can tell that I am a person who lies sometimes to protect the feelings of the other person or to cheer him\her up. Everything depends of the situation. I am a very sensitive person, it is difficult for me to see the other person suffer I do every thing to make the person smile or to think of something else. But does this defend the fact of lying? Is it better to be honest and to hurt someone or to make them believe in something that does not exist? This is a debate which has a lot of pro and contra arguments.

Sometimes it is good to make the people believe in something unreal to make them believe that there is a better world when they are hurt. An example of this would be an experience with one of my friends. She broke up with her boyfriend she suffered so much because she loved him. Because of the fact of loving him so much she never give up of the idea to got back together one day with him. She cried a lot for him. He got a girlfriend, my friend asked me to talk to him about his feelings according to her. So I did that he wasn’t a good person and she had so much illusions about their relationship. He said terrible things about her. When she asked me about the conversation I said that he had still some feelings for her and that he is unhappy with the other girlfriend. My friend was so happy, but still did I make the right thing? I made her believe in an illusion. On the other hand she was happy about that lie. Her eyes got a new sparkle after a long time, so I was happy about the fact of not telling the true, it would hurt her so much.

Sometimes it is good to make the people believe in an illusion, but the illusion does not hold forever. It makes people believe in something unreal for a short time and when it loses it function, we became unhappy again. And get more desperate because we found out that a friend lied to us and because of the fact that we believed in an illusion.

In conclusion of this, I think that it is better to be honest and to tell the true no mater what. Honesty is one of the important characteristic of human beans, it is easy to lose that characteristic but it is a very hard battle in the human nature to keep it. Honest people can be proud of themselves.

Mihane Selimi

7.12.2008

Well, it is a little bit terrible to always be the one who lied your friends or anybody else, but sometimes we don’t have any choice so we are able to lie someone, but this doesn’t mean that we have to do that too often, because we need to think what that lie brings than.

We have different way of laying in a different way of situations. In our generation furthermore we lie our teachers and parents usually about our homework’s. On the other hand when is spoken about our friends we lie only to protect their feelings the reason that we don’t want our friend feel horrible about that even if it’s always true.

In most of situation I think is more helpful to tell the truth even if it hurts. In addition of you tell the truth in his face may be the reason that he will change whatever it is wrong on his self.

In the end my personal conclusion that I advice all : DON’T LIE TOO MUCH BE HONEST EVEN IN THE BEGINNING THAT WILL HURT BUT IN THE END IM SURE HE/SHE WILL THANK YOU A LOT FOR THAT HONESTY.

What do you think of my essay
I think you essay its good enough, but about the last part, I don’t think that you have to tell the truth to one person that with that truth you will destroy his life. Imagine if you tell the truth to one person, and after that he will go and suicide, all which will be your fault. Arif

Yes, the essay is good enough but I agree with my friend Arif.

Well lying is not a good thing, to tell the truth I have lied lots of times for some reason.

For example when I have been in a boring party and I have had to leave when the host asked me why do I leave I haven’t told him that it’s a boring party because I don’t want to hurt him.

Or when a friend has a new hair style an he asks me how do I look like with my new hair style I wouldn’t tell directly the truth that he looks bad but I would say that it’s good but it could be better. There have been situations that I have had to tell the truth whatever the consequences would be. An example of this would be if some of my friend falls in love with someone that I hate I would say my opinion.

Like I said lying is not a good thing even I had lied a lot at school to my parents to my friends. There are lots of reasons why but that’s it. After all that for me honesty is the best policy.

What do you think about my essay
I think that your ideas are really nice that you don’t want to hurt someone and its necessary to lie to look like a honest person that the party is really nice but I have some other works to do? This is good lie that the others can believe you. But for other reasons you don’t have to lie a lot because if your friend’s hair style looks terrible so you have to tell him the truth Valmira

It was good to read your opinion about you how honest you are. so after a read I think you did a great job but the only think I don’t like is the same that valmira things.

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I THINK YOUR IDEAS ARE GREAT TOO

Mr. ARIF

In my opinion honesty is the best policy but not always. In general I love people who are honest. If the people are honest everything goes well. Sometimes we must tell the truth. An example of this would be: if my friend has a new haircut and it looks terrible I will tell the truth because other persons will laugh at him .So its better to tell him to change the haircut and then he will be more handsome. Sometimes I have lied and I have done that just to protect others feelings .Once my teacher asks me if my friend is deserve 5 .the truth is that he wasn’t but for his best I lied just to protect him. Sometimes we need to lie just to avoid the argument .Last week I was at a boring party and I wanted to leave. One my friend asked me why I am leaving so I lied him .I said that I had a headache and I must go home. In the end I would like to give an advice to the people that they should lie just when is necessary. Be honest, because that is better for other persons, for your friend and especially for YOU. What do you think of my essay? Well my friend your essay is perfect I liked your idea. I hope that you are honest yourself. Just continue like this!!! Rezak  Well my opinion is that your essay its great, but man how can come that in one party you get bored if you are with good friends there?  Arif I see that you did a great essay tha part that I liked the most ist if the people are honest everything goes well on the other hands about the 5 of you friend don’t worry we all do that? Teuta Hey Arif I wasn’t with my best friend. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">

Is honesty always the best policy? Honesty is a significant thing. Everybody needs to be honest. However there are situations when we need to lie. We don’t have to be honest because honesty is not always the best policy. To begin with, it's important to lie in school about something for example: when you haven’t learn nothing and than you will take a bad mark. an example of this would be very nice for a student maybe I don’t think that he has to be honest about it because sometimes it doesn’t work but in school we cant lie every day because its not healthy for us. so in the other hand sometime we have to be honest especially with our parents we have to tell them every thing that is not going good at all the problems we have. However it could be argued that the honesty is the best thing and the best policy for every one, why in this world there are a lot of liar so they lie all the time that there is not time for them to be honest

What do you think of my essay
I think your essay has the right limit and its nice because it shows that you know and you can write one essay with 150,160,180,200 etc. You have used the phrases. But I didn’t understand you answer: Is honesty always the best policy? Could you please give your opinion, and I agree with you that we should be honest with our parents. It nice I think. Enes I think your ideas are great, you have to lie in some cases. Arif