Why did people hurt other person? why they cannot say truth?
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I think a lot of the people on here are operating from a very prosaic and moralist perspective on the concept of “truth". To wit, the idea that “the truth will set you free” I think refers to an abstracting of more transcendent, virtuous or epistemological “truths”/reality.
To answer the question, then, I would say NO, the “truth” is not always necessary. If, for example, I heard someone bad mouthing a friend, should Iimmediately go and tell that person. But what is equally important is my motivation for why I am taking it upon myself to share a truth (see fact) with someone.
Let's do some “what if’s”? What if someone's mother committed suicide when they were very young and the person never knew about this (and also knew virtually nothing about their mother, being they were so young when their mother died) and I found out this information from, say, that person's grandmother and then I decided to go and tell this person. Is this right? To tarnish the only thing this person has of their mother, her unblemished memory? Perhaps that would be better, to understand the complexities of human life and the pain if existence, yada yada yada, but is, THAT, my place? Say I know grandma, but really do not know the grandchild, should I then run and tell the grandchild, after all that person has been “lied to”… So, I then should share the “truth” with them? To me that sharing sounds like it hada not more to do with my ego than with the necessity to “tell the truth”.
What if a woman was raped or a man had committed violent crime or was a repeated thief in his youth, should I deign to tell their child they decided not to share this information with? Furthermore, could one day it is wrong not to broach such sensitive topics. How about the man who used to be a thief, but the information is now sealed or expunged, should I deign to warn the man's current employer, if he is a friend of mine and then change that man's life forever and cost him his job?
Should I force others to reveal painful and difficult, complex realities of fact, simply because “it's the truth"?
I know many people who have made one mistake and then have a permanent crime on their records and are s therefore NEVER able to become gainfully employed. I know women who’ve experienced sexual assault and simply never want it brought up, what are the appropriate response s in these cases? In sharing information, especially powerfully factual information involving regret and true human ugliness, for no reason other than “well, it's the truth” is severely misguided.
I have seen, many times in my life that… often…”the truth” is a needless “reality in effect or in fact” which has more to do with ones ego based perceptions of reality. There is often no ultimate need to always “tell the truth” all the time.
Search your motivations, test yourself, question your “why" and know your reason, in everything that you do. On this topic….sometimes it is better to simply let sleeping dogs lie.