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I understand and agree with you. Up to a point.
I don't see any difference other than spirit in the comments 'you have bad body odor' and 'you stink.' I think if everyone told him the former rather than the latter he would get the point just as effectively and without the mean-spirited jab that serves to invalidate him because he happens to have body odor.
Being that it is, indeed, an academic exercise I think a concept like radical honesty should only be implemented in a thoughtful way. Not in a dishonest or passive-aggressive way, but in a way that is meant to be productive and compassionate. I grieve for the lack of compassion that is being imported in with this idea. Very much.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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