Caring/Compassion/Sensitivity/Tact vs Lying/Faking

[Monica]

Let me rephrase. If your purpose is to communicate, you should attempt to choose words that best create, in the mind of your audience, the correct perception.

If I may, I would point out a couple of things that make this sound a bit oversimplified.

Firstly, for any given audience there is a wide swath of awareness, distortions, prejudice, etc. It is not as if everybody is in the same place. The problem is that if one wishes to reach the "widest audience" then they must speak to the "lowest common denominator". Which, let's be frank, is pretty low.

This is especially challenging when speaking/writing on fringe or leading edge topics because there is so much ground to be covered to bring the ignorant person up to speed that it makes the whole effort rather a waste of time.

One or two ignorant fools can undermine the entire communication by insisting that everybody else be pulled down to the level of the "lowest common denominator"... asking inane questions [Did you complete the required reading before class?] and/or bringing up points which are irrelevant or just plain wrong ["But the Bible says homosexuality is an abomination!"]

This serves nobody, least of all themselves.

Your entire goal is to make them perceive the right thing.

I can't make anybody perceive anything. It is their choice whether or not to look within to see if my words resonate with their inner being. And if it doesn't, then it becomes THEIR responsibility to discern the difference and to communicate that in such a way as to help me better understand my own distortion in communicating the truth.

And yet, you seem to have put a lot of care and thought into what you said.