As a strong proponent of free speech, he also believes in truthful speech.
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With a never-ending army of lobbyists at its disposal, it is also trying to convince state legislatures to ban this truthful speech.
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Government action limiting the publication of truthful speech, let alone such speech about judicial proceedings, is nothing less than a form of rewriting history.
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Such restrictions on truthful speech are presumed unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and it is the government—not the speaker—which must bear the heavy burden to overcome that presumption.
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"This case is about whether the state may criminalize truthful speech that merchants believe is their most effective way of communicating the hidden cost of credit cards to their customers," Mr. Gupta said.
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"Thanks to the Deeming Rule, anyone who manufactures or sells a vaping product must obtain FDA's preapproval before engaging in truthful speech concerning that product's health and related effects," attorneys for the legal group argue in court documents.
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The scholars urging a reexamination of this law argue that unless social media platforms are treated as publishers responsible for the content they distribute, enemies of democracy will increasingly use speech on social media as a weapon to attack or suppress truthful speech.
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When reporting on the breakup of the Communist world in the 1980s, he befriended East European dissidents, saw how truthful speech could sap the will of wrongful power and collected a private lexicon of sardonic political jokes that here lighten the going.
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To realize truth our whole being has to be brought into accord > with actuality, with things as they are, which requires that in > communications with others we respect things as they are by speaking the > truth. Truthful speech establishes a correspondence between our own inner > being and the real nature of phenomena, allowing wisdom to rise up and > fathom their real nature. Thus, much more than an ethical principle, > devotion to truthful speech is a matter of taking our stand on reality > rather than illusion, on the truth grasped by wisdom rather than the > fantasies woven by desire.Bodhi (1999), ch. 4.
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Lashon hara differs from defamation in that lashon hara is truthful speech rather than lies. Lashon hara is considered to be a very serious sin in the Jewish tradition. The communicator of lashon hara (and rechilut) violates the prohibition of lo telech rachil b'ameicha – ("do not go out as a among thy people").
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However, she continues, these are not the actual of truth: only through the manifestation of truth, i.e. the spoken word that corresponds with facts, can a sacca-kiriyā be accomplished. With regard to the sacca-kiriyā scholars point out that speaking untruth in early Buddhist ethics was highly condemned, often more so than other vices: in other words, truthful speech was very important to Buddhist ethics.
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Gent , 1956. p. 180 Kane defines it as follows: "When the ramifications of right conduct, that are together called dharma and that can be established with efforts (of various kinds such as truthful speech, etc.) have been violated, the dispute (in a court between parties) which springs from what is sought to be proved (such as debt), is said to be vyavahāra."P.V. Kane, History of Dharmaśāstra, Vol. 3, p. 247 According to Donald Davis, “There are two basic meanings of vyavahāra.
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The reason for this is very profound, and reveals that > the commitment to truth has a significance transcending the domain of ethics > and even mental purification, taking us to the domains of knowledge and > being. Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal > communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding. > The two are respectively the outward and inward modalities of the same > commitment to what is real. Wisdom consists in the realization of truth, and > truth (sacca) is not just a verbal proposition but the nature of things as > they are.
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The ethical issues associated with honesty are widespread and vary greatly in business, from the misuse of company time or resources to lying with malicious intent, engaging in bribery, or creating conflicts of interest within an organization. Honesty encompasses wholly the truthful speech and actions of an individual. Some cultures and belief systems even consider honesty to be an essential pillar of life, such as Confucianism and Buddhism (referred to as sacca, part of the Four Noble Truths). Many employees lie in order to reach goals, avoid assignments or negative issues; however, sacrificing honesty in order to gain status or reap rewards poses potential problems for the overall ethical culture organization, and jeopardizes organizational goals in the long run.
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