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RE: Sam’s Hangout #112 - “HONESTY OR HARMONY?”
I see the angle you're coming from, and I understand your intentions to protect peace and avoid unnecessary damage. But I don't fully agree that silence is always the best option when truth could hurt.
I still believe that if something serious is known early, especially in a situation like in your school days, withholding the truth doesn't really remove the damage, it only delays it and in some cases may make the matter worse. Keeping the man in the dark makes him leave in a false reality for a very long time, and if he eventually discovers it on his own, it may even hurt him more knowing that his so called friends knew but did not speak.
It is true that truth should be handled with wisdom, and that not every situation needs immediate interference and not every details needs to be exposed carelessly. But there is a huge difference between being discreet and completely hiding something that can affect someone's life deeply. So we should not avoid truth just because it will be painful, expecially when it concerns someone's life and future.
Huhm, yea you're right and I very well understand you too.
I'm just of the opinion that certain truths are better left unsaid and withheld.
Also, the way it's been said truly matters, because I remember a man who was told something some few months ago, just recently ooo, he got to know about a thing and that was how he developed High BP, the man later died, and the other party who was involved(his wife) had continued with her life...
Also, there's this issue of a man who was told about his health status, this man was doing very well before he knows whatsup with him, but the way the doctor he visited told him of his situations and all, the man coughed right there and gave up the ghost. Even if he will have died, I'm sure it won't be that day, if the doctor has been wise enough to calm him down and tell him calmly, in very simple terms and encourage him without making him scared. It is his health, accepted but we can't always say certain things the way they are.
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