Honesty/Trustworthiness
@SpunkyLittleGirl (14)
June 21, 2017 7:44am CST
Trustworthiness is being honest, telling the truth, keeping promises, and being loyal so people can trust you. Trustworthy people don't lie, cheat or steal. They have integrity and the moral courage to do the right thing and to stand up for their beliefs even when it is difficult to do so.
Would your friends describe you as trustworthy? Why?
Who in your life do you trust?
How would you respond if were asked to lie for a friend?
What do you think this statement means, "there are no differences between our behavior and our conscience"?
Do:
* Stand by, stick up for, and protect your family, friends, and country.
* Be a good friend.
* Look out for those who care about you.
* Keep secrets.
Don't:
* Betray a trust.
* Let your friends hurt themselves.
* Ask a friend to do anything wrong.
* Spread hurtful rumors or gossip.
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3 responses
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
21 Jun 17
I agree being honest and trustworthy are very essential qualities for any individual. People automatically respect and trust people who are not selfish , don't spread malicious gossip or cheat. However, we are all human and knowingly or unknowingly, at times we might be driven to commit all those mistakes !!
@SpunkyLittleGirl (14)
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21 Jun 17
What would drive us to commit all those mistakes? If we chose to unfriend an untrustworthy person, would that fix the problem?
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
21 Jun 17
@SpunkyLittleGirl I guess circumstances and life is full of problems o one move fro our side is hardly enough to permanently fix anything.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
21 Jun 17
If you are his/her friends, it means they are trustworthy and you believed in them, that is friendship.
@SpunkyLittleGirl (14)
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21 Jun 17
So just because you are trustworthy, your friend will be? What about a two faced person? When someone acts one way in front of you, but than when you're not around has fun ridiculing you. A person that smiles in your face and then turns around and talks bad about you. When someone acts like your friend and then talks about you behind your back.
@moirai (2836)
• Philippines
22 Jun 17
I've always thought (and said) that lying is one of the things I don't like the most.
Once you catch someone in a lie, it's going to be very hard to trust that person ever again. They may say, 'oh I've changed, I'm telling the truth now', but who's to say they're not lying about that?
Having said that - and I might sound like a hypocrite here - for your question of if a friend were to ask me to lie for them, I might say ok depending on what is being asked from me.
For instance, if the friend says, 'hey, if the boss asks you, tell him I left for work 10 minutes ago, when in reality I'm still at home finishing my breakfast'. I might consider that as ok. Might. However, if it's something I find to be a more serious issue, I would likely tell the friend to think long and hard about he wants to do first, and not 'help' him by lying for him.
In any case, the "keep secrets" part in the post above can sometimes also be problematic. Life is such that sometimes, things are not as simple as we hope them to be. How we wish sometimes things are more clearly black and white. What if keeping the secret hurts people more?
