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Honesty is considered one of the highest of virtues in Germany. You can be blunt to the point of rudeness and people will still praise you for being "plainspoke
by veddox 8y ago
Honesty is considered one of the highest of virtues in Germany. You can be blunt to the point of rudeness and people will still praise you for being "plainspoken". And talking about plagiarism: at least two federal ministers have had to resign in the last 10 years after it came out that they plagiarised parts of their PhD theses. Though obviously not all Germans are honest, honesty does has a very high standing in our culture. There is no excuse whatsoever for this kind of deliberate forgery, especially by a member of a profession whose job it is to "tell the truth".
- Pica_soO 8y agoIf you take honesty away, you cant improve upon yourself anymore. Then its all a race of smoke and mirrors, defeat-devices and faked statistics. And honesty hurts. That is why, feeling hurt by words is a attack on honesty, if the information presented in those words it true. And from their, its all downhill, all competition, all the virtues of creating something are dissolved.