Words still matter. The concept of truthfulness still resonates. The ethics of speech remains intuitively important to many people.
These are not high ideals, but foundational necessities for any decent human community.
Words still matter. It has been revealed again during this presidential campaign. The trustworthiness ratings of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are as low as they are in part because of their sins against the truth, and more broadly (for Mr. Trump), their sins against other aspects of the ethics of speech.
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