Honesty

Honesty Essay on Honesty You pull up to the second window at the McDonalds’s drive-through to pick up the shake you just ordered and paid for, and the person working there hands you a huge bag of food while asking you if this is what you ordered. Do you A: Answer “Yes” and take the food or B: Answer “No” and tell him/her that you only paid for a shake' Yes this really did happen to me. What did I do' Believe it or not, I did the honest thing and gave the food back. But the real question is what would a majority of American’s youth do in a similar situation. There are two potentially dishonest acts in this situation, lying and stealing. In my opinion most high school kids are not above lying and/or stealing. The reason this is true is simply that many of today’s parents are not above lying and/or stealing. So after observing people that hold a high place of respect do things unmoral like this, their conscience says to itself, “Okay, lying and/or stealing is not really that bad, and is acceptable to my parents.” A honesty, parents, kids, food, actions, unmoral, stealing, lying, confused, wrong, person, morally, make, learn, don’t, children, because, bag, and/or, acceptable, about, youth, yes, working, un-honorable, turn, today, thought, think, therefore, take, society, situation, shake, rubbing, robots