What is truth? To whom do I owe it? I remember an ethics of communication class in college, and the discussion of Bonhoeffer's writing on truth-telling. What I got from that long-ago discussion is that not everyone is entitled to the truth from another. Perhaps it was what I wanted to hear because it gave me a means to protect my privacy, but I adopted it.
Truth is more than words and it is no words at all. If I don't have the right to ask the question, I have no grounds for complaint when the answer is something less.
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