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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Without Integrity Nothing Else Matters
Do I make myself more handsome by portraying others as ugly? Can I make my ideas sound better by distorting those of others? When we knowingly misrepresent facts, we’re lying. And lying is among the gravest of threats to our … Continue reading
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Tagged accuracy, competitiveness, current-events, diversity, election, ethics, free speech, integrity, leadership, politics, presidential election, truth, voter rights
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Free Speech Can’t Live with Lies
According to scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, the bi-partisan duo who recently published It’s Even Worse than It Looks, “Viral emails and word-of-mouth campaigns are expanding sharply, mostly aimed at false facts about political adversaries”(p. 66). Last November, the … Continue reading
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Tagged current-events, election, free speech, freedom, Internet lies, leadership, politics, presidential election, truth, viral emails, voter rights, voting rights
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To Lie or Not to Lie?
According to scholars, as living things evolved they developed deeply entrenched characteristics to avoid becoming victims and to succeed as predators. This impulse to deceive enables survival, and those that are unable to fool their predators or their victims die, … Continue reading
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Tagged current affairs, election, fairness, free speech, leadership, politics, presidential election, voter rights, voting rights
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High Streams: Sorting fact from belief 