■ Direction Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. Typically, an effective response will contain a minimum of 300 words. ■ Question Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use specific reason and examples to support your answer |
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▶ Topic : Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Always telling the truth is the most important consideration in any relationship between people. |
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▶ Your Answer :
We often have been taught that telling the truth is one of the most important virtues in our life. That is the reason why some people who hate lies can be normally found in our society. Of course, telling the truth is considered as a good behavior. However, always telling the truth can make several problems occur. One of the problems which can occur by always telling the truth is found in which someone can be frustrated by hearing the truth. For example, one may want to say that it seems to be impossible when someone is dreaming for a huge and high goal to achieve (e.g. being a professor, learning foreign language to get a special job). But even at the moment when someone's dream looks hard to come true, the words of "You can do it" provides extraordinary power to the person who has a dream. In other words, honestly expressing one's negative thought toward someone's dream can lower the chance of the dream coming true. Furthermore, the effort of always saying the truth can be meaningless when the speaker is mistaken. Let's say that someone asks you how the weather of tomorrow is going to be. If you think that you saw the reporter on the news saying tomorrow's weather is going to be sunny, you will say "You don't have to take an umbrella tomorrow. Trust me. I'm not a person who lies." When you realize the news you saw on TV was not about tomorrow but two days after, however, your friend can be in a great problem if it was officially expected to rain tomorrow. This example shows that trusting oneself as always saying the truth may fool him/her and lead to a difficult circumstance Someone would say that the truth makes us trust each other and unite. Based on the reasons above, however, I think that we have to remember that sometimes we have to avoid telling the truth when it is inappropriate. It is because the truth sometimes makes someone be frustrated or be mistaken. Truth should be considered as a good tool, not a magic word that fixes every problem. |
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