Truth or compassion?
What are you more likely to say to other person if those two are opposite of each other in some situation?
What do you want to hear from others in a hard times?
I know that question is very general, so people can put it in a context they feel it is right for them, but idea is not to talk just about touchy/feely things here. The idea is to talk about differences of truth/feels good in general.
I don't have any big dilemmas I am just curious since I am totally on the "truth side" of the spectrum.(and people have problem with it)
Probably T/F will play a role in this thrad.
I believe, until convinced otherwise, that it is a fallacy to paint truth and compassion as spectral opposites. [As to why it is done so often I can only speculate it is the result of immature Ti/Te or stressed & unhealthy Fi/Fe which stops short of the "real" spectrum where
untruth lies at the opposite end of truth rather than compassion. Compassion is merely the filter through which the results can be viewed and translated. (The reality that truth/untruth are merely perspectives is an entirely other can of worms I am not prepared to open at this time.)]
These two concepts are only mutually exclusive if you have not cultivated the art (or striven to) of tactful relay, or diplomatic informant. Though there may be many instances where
I have not yet found the happy medium,
I have always tried to unite one (truth) with the other (compassion). As has oft been paraphrased throughout humanity's dealings with itself, it is never quite so much what one presents as
how one presents it, yes?
To the op: Should I ever be confronted with an instance where I lack the skill to artfully present both truth and compassion, I will present my inability along with my decision and beg pardon.
I'll admit that INFJs
may have one-up on many types in this arena, instinctively trying to choreograph the complicated dance between authenticity and harmony at all times. However, I have seen some splendid displays of this remarkably underappreciated triumph by other types, not least among them INTJs (Ex: Night) & INTPs (Ex: Jennifer).