Why is honesty rare?

Question

The most detailed answer is always chosen as best....

...Assuming boundless communication is a good thing, when will boundless communication prevail? Or, rather, when is boundless communication a terrible idea? Can you think of any funny and or interesting situations or examples?

Answer 1

its not rare because if you have good friends and good people around you they will tell you what you need to hear.

it is only rare because there are alot of bad people in the world and alot of deception over money, power, and woman.

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Answer 2

An honest person has to tread the path which is beset with difficulties.He has to make his way through the crowd of dishonest and corrupt people who want success the easy way by lying, appeasing and placating, bribing and by seeking some kind of favor on one ground or the other.An honest person has call a spade a spade and that often brings him to the point where he has to face criticism and opposition from those who want things their own way.For example, if you are working in a lab, your boss says something to which you don't agree, and yet you nod in approval to what he says.

Answer 3

basing my experience, if you're honest and others are not, if you're a honest employee, you end up being hated by everyone or if you're a honest not-so-intelligent student you'd end up lowest in your class.

*** When I was starting to appreciate school way back grade school, I never tried/attempted or even think cheating on exams or quizzes. I was dismayed when I was first year High school that my classmates who deliberately cheats at class get higher marks than I am. I tried not to to be swayed by having lower marks than them. First grading I got a honest 78%, the cheaters got 85-88% grades. Second grading comes, I got fairly 82% and them.... 90%! I said to myself, "the heck with honesty is the best policy; that it is better to get ZERO than a STOLEN 100" I accept that I am not that smart to get high marks and that my level of understanding is until only 80% rate. However, it bothers me that my classmates who cheats obviously (our teachers seems pretending to be deaf and blind or my classmates were just to good as cheaters) were given higher marks than I am. SO I changed my principle... "If you can't beat them... well just join them!" I broke my noble codeof honesty and alas! Finally, I got the 2nd highest mark in our class in our 3rd grading... I got 94%.
Right now, I am an instructor in one of medical schools here in phil. The usual practice of some of my co-instructors especially on a NOC(11pm-7am) duty was that they would let their students go home as early as 4 am, hence an undertime duty. I promised myself and told my students that I will not tolerate such practice in our rotations. 11pm is 11 pm. 7 am is 7 am. However, first day duty, we ended up as early as 5 am. Y? Because if I insist that I'm going to dismiss our duty on 7am, I will be left alone in the hospital with my students and them(undertimers) on thier beds sleeping beautifully. We get the same salary, sometimes they get their salary first than us new instructors. If I go my own "honest-to-goodness", I will be left out.
I've been sucked up with this decadent system where honesty are for saints and stupid persons. That the end justify the means...

HONESTY IS RARE COZ NOBODY VALUE TRUTH, JUSTICE, and HONOR.

Answer 4

Because of the excessive amount of corruption! especially nowadays.