Is Alice Justified In Telling The Truth

When Alice saw Mary’s boyfriend Tom cheating on Mary with another girl; I personally believe that it would be imperative to tell Mary about the incident. This decision is the best one to make based upon Alice’s values of the people she cares about, the extensive length of her and Mary’s friendship, and the possible repercussions of withholding the truth. If Alice considers these three reasons in telling the truth; it will make her decision a lot easier to make. To begin, since Mary is an important person in Alice’s life, it would only be natural to try to keep her friend happy even if the situation is not ideal. In the short run, it may seem to be tempting not to tell Mary the truth. However, Alice should make the responsible decision, being …show more content…
In my opinion, I would understand the feeling that telling my best friend bad news as a significant other cheating on them might be a difficult thing to do. The easy thing to do would just shrug it off to make my friend feel temporarily happy. However, I would understand the repercussions of keeping the truth hidden because I know that if the tables were turned I would have the trust in my friends to tell me the truth if it may hurt me at first.It might be a little hard at first to be told the truth, but the end result would benefit me in the long run. With that being said, I know if Alice was a good friend of Mary for such a long time, she must also value their friendship in the past and in the future. It would be wise to tell Mary the truth because it is the right and just thing to …show more content…
In my own personal opinion, I believe neither of these factions are correct and that humans are a blank slate that are directly influenced by their environment. This third alternative can be related to a piece of clay molded to a specific shape by the handler. With this being said I also believe that in addition to humanity being neutral it is easier to be good than evil. To begin, students no matter how full of potential will suffer in a toxic learning environment. It could be a room of the best students, but when the education they receive is below average, these students will not be able to earn effectively, and thus suffer a retroactive affect due to this negative learning. This event is described by American theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman who describes the situation that, “Nobody knew what was going on, and they would put down the other one as if they did know.” This is related to humanity being a neutral slate that is taught by showing a metaphor of this issue as it pertains to a classroom and education. The beginning of humanity, who is represented by the students show that when given the wrong upbringing, the children (students) can be corrupted by an improper environment (non useful textbook) to yield what we define as evil (hostility in the classroom). This metaphor is a good way