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If you had a choice between being honest and loyal....what would you rather be?

In some situations if you choose to be honest you can hurt those close to you and if you are loyal you are dishonest making the honest person seem like the one in the wrong....so what would you do?

A friend chose to be loyal rather than honest and I can't seem to get over the fact that people can take HONESTY so lightly these days......

Update:

But Lilly if your being loyal means being unfair to one and loyal to other would you still choose to be loyal just because maybe you love that person more than the person who is actually right in the whole situation?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Honesty! Whats the point being loyal and being a such hypocrite. Honesty is what we lack of in this society or around the world!

  • 1 decade ago

    well the thing is that if you are truly being loyal then that would mean being honest to the person you show loyalty to. if you arent honest then you arent loyal because part of being loyal is having to be honest. so in a sense both but if you had to choose it would be loyal because that would consider both loyalty and honesty at the same time and then you wouldnt have the trouble of choosing one you would be doing both just by doing one. if you cant understand what im saying just tell me and i will reword it. oh and if someone asks you a question that puts you in a situation where being honest could hurt there feelings then say what you have to to them in a way that makes it as friendly and painless as possible. like if someone asks you if you think they are fat then say" you are my friend and i dont judge you on how you look , in my eyes your beautiful "

    Source(s): lilly
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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Honesty is the best policy.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Honest, the truth has never hurt anyone, they are only disappointed because you didn't lie.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Both!

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