Interesting post, rb, and congratulations on becoming healthier. You're right in that the radical honesty you described above is more about self than the addressed, but I don't know if that's the whole thing. After reading the article I did find that I might coddle people a bit too much. If someone asks my honest opinion, I wouldn't be out of line for giving it to them. Unsolicited, no, but solicited, yes. If someone were overweight and asked my opinion of their health, I wouldn't be doing them any favors by coddling them, and obesity is a disease, of course. I would never dream of going as far as using passive aggressive language towards someone, though. That's not honesty, as honesty would in my mind include necessity. If something isn't necessary to say, then saying it isn't honest to the need to say it (I really hope that makes as much sense to everyone else).
I suspect that Dr. Blanton is punched in the face a lot.
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