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Britons 'becoming less honest,' research shows

World Jan. 26, 2012 - 06:06AM JST ( 13 )

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FarmboyJan. 26, 2012 - 07:05AM JST

hmmm....To me, being more tolerant of certain things doesn't necessarily mean that people are less honest.
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Ben_JackinoffJan. 26, 2012 - 10:21AM JST

That's not true!
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RushO'HannityJan. 26, 2012 - 10:37AM JST

my encounters with british citizens on the internet led me to the same conclusion a long time back.
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MaboDofuIsSpicyJan. 26, 2012 - 12:18PM JST

I bet a lot of people interviewed lied.
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Sarcasm321Jan. 26, 2012 - 01:41PM JST

Put a fork in Britain, she's done. When a country turns it back on traditional morality and Christianity as quickly and as thoroughly as the UK has, you can be sure it will be heading for Third World status pretty soon.
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RushO'HannityJan. 26, 2012 - 03:05PM JST

" Put a fork in Britain, she's done

agree completely.
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nandakandamandaJan. 26, 2012 - 05:24PM JST

Not sure what honesty and Christianity have to do with each other, or is that sarcasm, 321? Many of the immigrants are honest, regardless of which religion they may or may not have.

There is very little pocketing of lost objects in Japan for example, and where is the Christianity in that? It is actually a crime to take leftover change from the change dispenser of a vending machine.

By the same token I do agree that there is a growing underculture of dishonesty in Britain that does not sit right. It seems that there are few people brave enough to stand up and say out loud what should be obvious. Too many people quietly acquiesce. A problem in the education of children? Too many conflicting value systems?
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FarmboyJan. 26, 2012 - 07:04PM JST

I think the article doesn't make a clear enough distinction between growing permissiveness and growing dishonesty, taking examples from the wrong column to support conclusions about the other column. If people are doing more drugs, they are more permissive, not more dishonest. If more people are cheating on tests, they are more dishonest, not more permissive. Whether Britain is done or not, I have no idea.
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SuperLibJan. 26, 2012 - 07:24PM JST

I bet a lot of people interviewed lied.

Heh I was wondering that myself. How can we trust a survey if the results are telling us the people are not honest?
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RomeoRJan. 26, 2012 - 07:42PM JST

The sun has set on the British Empire.

RR
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PizzafaceJan. 26, 2012 - 08:11PM JST

the Centre for the Study of Integrity at the University of Essex,

What bothers me is that someone would decide for us all what constitutes integrity, and then go on to declare a society more or less honest than in the past. Especially things concerning sex and personal relationships are really troublesome. No one should go around making hard and fast judgements, because no one knows the half of it when it comes to other people's sex lives, and their reasons for this or that or understandings between them.

Tolerance of affairs is not a question of honesty or integrity. Its a matter of confirming to human reality that people have foolishly railed against for centuries within the sphere of Catholic influence especially.
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unreconstructedJan. 26, 2012 - 08:11PM JST

But still too honest for continental Europeans. They can at least be proud of that.
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The Truth MattersJan. 27, 2012 - 04:49AM JST

I have to wonder if this is a British thing or a human thing. It seems to me that people are less honest than they were 20 years ago. Perhaps it's a sign of the economic times. But we've got neo-cons claiming to be libertarians and democrats in Japan and an entire political party in America that is based upon not being honest with themselves (I'm looking at you teapartiers).

It's a less honest world.