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RE: ---- Copes Thoughts on Radical Honesty ----
It's amazing how many hangups I run into when I tell people to just be honest in difficult situations. It's clear that this is an overall society/species problem, but it's amazing how much people suffer repressing themselves all based on the assumption that others can't handle honesty or they are afraid of the consequences of honesty.
We have been conditioned since birth to be this way due to social norms. It is a hard habit to break or even recognize within ourselves. changing a habit that ingrained in our psyche is extremely difficult for these very reasons. It can feel like going against everything you know and have been taught..... because it is, this can be the most challenging part for some. It can be too much to bare to "do wrong" by societal norms, almost everyone tried to get you to move back to a point of conformity. It is a self correcting system (by design) that is a heavy contributing factor which drives us to be this way. But we are all different and adapt to these things in our own way if at all...