Two Similar-Sounding Pieces Of Advice Are Not All That Similar

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(1)

Girls:

Do not be afraid

to speak out

(2)

Girls:

Do not be afraid

to speak out

truthfully

The first piece of advice is short, direct and without qualification. 

It aligns with our cherished Freedom of Speech.  A girl wouldn't feel inferior or left out if other girls had compelling reasons to speak out and she had nothing to say. That girl could, if necessary, decorate some facts or create some facts and get rewarded with a lot of sympathy and compassion.

The second piece of advice repeats all the words of the first but adds a qualifier. The second piece of advice is neither short nor direct. The qualifier increases the syllables of advice by twenty-five percent while reducing the reward of sympathy and compassion if truthful information fails to create a victim of sexual harassment.

Requiring truthfulness also reduces a girl's ability to deceive while increasing her ability to be boring without creating colorful fabrications about sexual abuse.

But all humans need sympathy and compassion.
Or do they?

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