Sometimes people tell the truth. The truth is not too pleasant. But more often people deceive themselves, each other. Lying is a necessary lubricating element of any social interaction. After all, if we kept saying “the truth, the truth, and nothing but the truth,” then almost everyone would be unemployed. Few people like a boss, sometimes they don’t even like colleagues. And today we are talking about the adjective "impartial" - this is our object of study.
Value
Someone will think: "Why did you need such a long introduction?" Everything is very simple. The adjective, parsed today, as if contrasts itself with the lies that reigns around. But it should be said that truth is the last cartridge that a person uses only if there is no other way. For example, a student's academic performance is reduced, and to the last he keeps a secret that he has problems with classmates. Sometimes truth is what is required, say, in court. In the proceedings, whether we like it or not, we must tell the truth, and it’s unpleasant, that’s known. We learn the true meaning of the adjective, for it is time: “Not based on personal respect; candid". Our interest has nothing to do with it. We just want to get to the very truth. Therefore, we will also have to consider the meaning of the noun “hypocrisy”: “partial attitude”. That is, a person does not tell the truth, because somehow he treats someone who comes under the blow of this very truth in a special way. Often, people, of course, smooth out corners. However, we are repeating ourselves, so we need to move on.
Synonyms
To expand our understanding of the meaning of the word "impartial", it is necessary to parse its logical replacements. Surely, thanks to this operation, the reader will learn something new for himself. So, let's look at the list of adjectives, which turned out as a result:
- cutting;
- honest;
- equitable;
- candid;
- unbiased;
- unprejudiced.
In principle, if you remove the first position in the list, you get a rather interesting set that does not have words with a negative meaning. That is, honesty and displeasure go different paths. Although we do not get tired of reminding that the truth is usually unpleasant, but this, if we analyze speech practice, and speaking formally, then dictionaries do not bind emotions and honesty.
Unpleasant and unpleasant
Why should this be given a little more time and space? Because people confuse “unpleasant” and “unpleasant”, and this is common. By the way, such speech behavior has its own reasons. We have already discussed them repeatedly. Even impartial and fair truth hurts the one against whom it is directed. Therefore, in the human consciousness, not at all synonymous notions — unpleasant and unpleasant — are fused together. Probably, some harmony in such a merger is played by the harmony of adjectives.
Dr. House vs. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln said honesty is the best policy, is that so? After we have revealed the meaning of “impartial”, we will only have to reflect on the moral side of the issue. In the beginning we said that a lie is a necessary element of any social relationship, from professional to personal. We often have more time for relatives than for strangers or those with whom we work. We protect relatives. Therefore, it turns out that the truth is impartial - this is such an instrument that people are rather forced to use. An ordinary person does not want to just hurt another. Cynics, of course, practice torturing their neighbor, but they have their own humane goal: they want to open a person’s eyes to himself and thereby make him better. Typically, such methods do not work.
People become stiff in their existence. And the maxim of Dr. House that people always lie, in this case, beats the maxim of Abraham Lincoln. Truth is the best policy only in the sense that it cannot be confused. And for a politician, as for any public person, this is very important. Otherwise, the benefits of truth are not proven.