Con says "Higher quality friends. Honesty attracts honesty. People who are trustworthy and honest attract trustworthy and honest friends. And those are the best friends to have."How do you know if the friend beside you is honest?? How do you know that your-honest-friend isn't coning you or won't deceive you??
Let's admit the simplest of facts here. The multitude of people out there doesn't welcome the Cold Honest Truth instead they prefer to be flattered and cajoled and to be kept in the polite comfort zone. In today's era anything is better than the critical hard truth especially the one that makes you look bad. Think about it. Society doesn't reward us for being honest... it chastises us instead. Tell a fat woman that she is fat and she'll term you as rude. Call a man on his incompetence and this will rile him up! This is where honesty gets you- people are afraid to be with you lest you reveal one of their weaknesses, similar to the child who called the Emperor on his nakedness in the story The Emperor's New Clothes. Be honest and you are accused to be cruel and tactless. So why be honest?? Because honesty is the best policy?? Nope! The downside is more than the upside by a mile and this is why so many people are wary of being honest.
Con says "Trust. Honest people are trusted by others."
Despite knowing that a majority of our politicians, more than 99.99% of the total fraction are corrupt yet in a span of every five years we elect ministers from the same dishonest lot and trust them with our county, with our lives... why does the notion of trusting honest people goes down the drain then?? Moreover why do need others to trust you when you have millions sitting in banks?? Furthermore, who recognizes your honesty when you are poor?? Will you trust a beggar with your money, give him access to your bank account only cause according to you he person is honest??
Con says "Wellness - Honesty has been linked to less colds, less fatigue, less depression, and less anxiety. This means better health. And as we say, "Health is wealth". A person may be poor, he may have to work very hard to earn his living, but even the richest man would envy him for his good health, for which honesty contributes as one of the factors."
Well in that case I have a scientifically proven statistical fact for you:-
"Poverty is a carcinogen"
Those were the exact words of Dr. Samuel Broder when he was the director of the National Cancer Institute. As amply documented in the annual "Cancer Facts and Figures 2011" released by the American Cancer Society, cancer shows that poverty remains the most potent carcinogen- rivaling tobacco- as we have ever seen. This is where the real worth of money is understood. Money can buy health. There are several expensive drugs that are vital to cure certain diseases that the poorer sections of the society aren't able to afford.
Con says "Less stress "Again a contradictory fact. When you have millions sitting in your bank you have no worries. You can live a worry free life just be living off the interest for the rest of the life. How can you be stressed about a hundred dollar energy bill when you loads stuffed in your pockets??
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