Is the price of honor sometimes admitting you're wrong?

Question

Fry Chef: You have no idea how I feel about my country. Stop making ill-educated, ridiculous comments.

Answer 1

Of course..there is honor in honesty. And vanity is NOT honor.

Answer 2

Any thing else is considered blind insanity to reality .

Swinging an ax into a concrete wall might eventually bring it down with enough determination and effort and time . But thats what a sledge hammer is for .
Now someone with only and ax may attempt this feat . Its not impossible to do but if offered a sledge hammer in exchange for the ax and it is rejected what can you say .
Stupidity and blind ignorance should have been readily obvious to anyone who looked into Bushes History .
A average student a failed business man and as governor of texas created massive debts for taxpayers .
Signed more deathwarrants then any man alive and to this day is responsible for the deaths of almost 500,000 people .

Bush has no honor and will never admit anything he did was wrong .

Answer 3

Honor is standing up for what is right! If you find out you are wrong, you take responsibility for it and correct it! There is no honor in shirking your responsibilities, letting others take the blame for you. That is a coward!

No one has the truth! No one has access to millions of government documents hidden from us. All we can do is the best we can! We make mistakes every day. Thats how we learn. Well most do!

Answer 4

Yes- if we want to keep a shred of "Honor" and in my opinion- that would go a long way for the government that represents all Americans-

Being stupid and continuing to make the mistake worse and worse and hoping for a positive outcome, is like a drunk driver buying the whole liquor store in order to fix his problem-

Now THAT is hating oneself and all those around them- that is the EVIL deed to ourselves, and to our amazing honorable soldiers who will follow orders without question-

If their is another way to resolve a futile struggle, it is MORE HONORABLE to do the RIGHT THING -

of course- drunk drivers do not know about diplomacy - ramming into a tree or another family and killing everyone is preferable- then they don't ever have to face responsibility-
and too bad about the grieving?
Now WHO is acting un - American????

Answer 5

Yes, it certainly is. But it is more than that. It is also resolving to correct those errors as well. But of course we already know based on some previous answers to this question, that democrats, particularly liberals dont make mistakes. So putting them aside for a moment, for the rest of us mere mortals who do make mistakes we have to decide between preserving both our honor, and our credibility. This is very easy for most of us who arent in politics, see we are either the type of person that is concerned about saving face, or we are the kind of person who is more likely to preserve our honor. Successful politicians have a tougher job, see they have to be able to do both. Hence the well known remark about politics being the "art of saving ones face and *** at the same time". So the fundamental problem with politics and politicians is one of honesty. You cant preserve your credibility if you are constantly fessing up to every error in judgement you make, your job wouldnt last long. But you also cant be caught neglecting responsibilty for errors either. This is why most politicians are the best liars on Earth. They have to be in order to have any hope of keeping their jobs for very long. But I suspect that this question is one that is designed to suggest that someone in particular (George Bush) is less than honorable because of his failure to admit errors in his judgement with respect to the war on terror. As rhetorical as the question obviously is I will answer it anyway. It is impossible to be an honorable politician and be a successful one at the same time. That goes for ALL politicians , even the "enlightened" liberals, and democrats, that dont make any mistakes. You want honor......elect a King and then get out of his way, because nothing you do short of revolution is going to change his foreign policy or length of term in office. Just hope that your definition of honor is the same as his otherwise good luck. It is absurd and naive to expect anything but compulsive dishonesty from any politician, period. Until we stop electing glorified used car salesmen, and start electing leaders and rewarding them for their humility and honesty, instead of brow-beating them for it, we can always expect that our politicians will be masters of "saving their *** and face at the same time".

Answer 6

Honor means that you are not afraid to admit that you're wrong and not afraid to change course to correct the problem. George W. Bush does neither. He stays his course regardless of the consequences. It's time that he pays the price for making the wrong decisions. Impeach Bush and cabinet and cronies.

Answer 7

Some people won't recognise 'honor' if it walks up to them and slaps them in the face.
And others will never even admit that they made a mistake.

Answer 8

oh heck yes.. there is NO honor in going down the wrong path.. while you know it is wrong.. just because you are too weak to admit you messed up.

Answer 9

Claiming to have honor is one thing - keeping it and EARNING it implies honesty in all situations.

Answer 10

Can any of the Bush-haters tell me the last time a Democrat admitted they were wrong?

Yeah, I thought so.