I just had about a twenty minute talk with my leadership LT about honor and about telling little lies. It was very interesting. I asked him how the honor concept was in his day and how it was viewed by the typical midshipman. He said that it was very different back then. Back then, people were a lot more scared to violate the Honor Concept because there were stiffer punishments; however, people were also less willing to turn people in for honor trouble because it was that vicious.
We then talked some about the concept of lying and how our society conditions us to make small little lies every day. I don't know how everybody thinks, but a lot of the examples he gave me seemed not to make much sense...I suppose that's why I seem like a jerk sometimes...and why I've learned how to use diplomatic speech. I don't lie most of the time, and sometimes I think that hurts my relationship with others, because they only hear me saying what I think is the truth--which, unfortunately, is not always what they want to hear. Because, though in the short-term, a lie may be the easier road to take; in the end, the corruption of language that is a lie will hurt us all far more.
"It's not how life is treating me that matters, it's how I react to it."
-Mountain Wings
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