'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.
I think people appreciate honesty.
If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.
People are rude in general.
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
Being honest with the public is how they respect you.