ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN STUDENT AUTHORS (ANSA)
2022/23 ANSA WORLD CUP
GROUP STAGE MATCH
D2 vs D3 (Text)
You have 10 minutes to produce at least 100 words in response to the following question.
Do you believe honesty or kindness is important? Are they the same thing or different?
Your time starts now! Submit on or before 20:33 (GMT+1).
All the best!
ANSA… for the love of writing
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN HONESTY AND KINDNESS
Though closely related, the words “Honesty” and “Kindness” have their difference in meaning and application. While honesty is being truthful, kindness is an act of being considerate and helping others.
As an illusion, telling a blind man the total amount in his bowl is honesty while helping him reach his desired destination is Kindness.
Honesty and Kindness are very important and though often underestimated, their significance is enormous. Lies affect a whole lot of things, honesty corrects that and helps people make more informed decisions.
The world needs more Kindness, actions of Kindness unprovoked and not under any responsibility goes a long way in making everything better.
There are certain virtues that are important to stress the essence of humanity. Two of those virtues are kindness and honesty. So to say, kindness is a state of being generous while honesty is a state of moral correctness. In the social world, one of the ways to ensure development in the spaces of the society is the emulation of kindness and honesty as virtues.
The dichotomy between both kindness and honesty, however, needs to be stressed. It is a different to be kind, and a different to be honest. In distinction, a kind man is someone who gives but might not necessarily say the truth. And a honest man is someone who says the truth but might not necessarily be generous.