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You having power doesn’t necessarily mean you're right in all matters but the trouble here is a that a person with power can force his beliefs as true because it takes fair debates and the freedom of speech and right to not agree for the truth to be well established.

When someone who has power is wrong, some of them go great lengths to cover it up. Their status, their trust, their respect and even their livelihood all depend on the lie going undetected for as long as they want to reign. I asked myself a question this morning, can a person have absolute power without lies? I'm still thinking about it till now so perhaps my readers can respond to this.

For the power guy that is lying, when you confront him with the truth, it is not just a simple fact check, you are touching their very credibility and you threaten their empire.

They react the way most people act when they feel they're being attacked. They fire you, they threaten you and they lie about you. They send a clear message to anyone watching about the consequences of speaking up against them, even in respect they still won't take it. There are men who are opposite of that and a truly humble but those men are few.

It is not really a personal damage, it is just collateral from the truth, because guess what, your truth is now their problem, and they will treat it like it is the biggest, most pressing issue of the day.

I've been told a number of times that honesty is the best policy. I thought that my facts will always influence the truth of the situation. That is not the case because the facts alone do not have power, it's the people supporting the facts that have the. power.

You can be right and still be wrong, in a way. When you have the truth on your side, it doesn't protect you from the backlash of the people in the hierarchy who think their beliefs are right. Their beliefs are not grounded in facts but in their narrative and it is the narrative that you are up against.

I feel like I'm sounding pessimistic, but it is just the way it is, the truth aligns second to the hierarchy. People may know you're right and you are telling the truth but they can't do anything about it to establish the truth because they don't have the power to.

Just because you know this information doesn't mean you must bend the truth. You can be honest and just not be shocked when the truth costs you something. You know that being correct doesn't protect you, on the contrary, it puts you on the chopping block. The most dangerous part isn't being wrong, the most dangerous part is being correct in front of someone who can't afford for you to be.

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