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From: eric@washu.UUCP (Eric Kiebler)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: New Topic - Lots of good thoughts from Glenn Reid
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 22:27:27 EDT
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Well, heck, lets jump on the bandwagon...

It seems to me that people have relationships which are built either
on strength or on weakness.  Some people get together because they
have needs which the other person can fulfill, and hopefully the other
person feels satisfied in such a relationship.  Others build relationships
based on their own strengths, not "needing" the other person to be
complete.  Every point on the spectrum between these extremes probably
has some couple shoring it up.

Well, as the needs become greater so do the pressures to preserve the
relationship.  White lies, when uncovered, too often lead to "well if
s/he lied about that, what else is there about me that is wrong...".
Brutal honesty solves nothing either, since more often than not the
recipient gets hurt by being brutalized.  There is a difference, however,
between employing tact and telling a white lie. 

So here we arrive at net.philosophy with the question:

Does not telling the whole truth constitute a lie?

eric
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