It is true, as the old adage says, that "sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me."
Answer: False
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Public Speaking
- Unlike writers, public speakers can present other people's ideas as their own without being guilty of plagiarism.
- Because the aim of speechmaking is to secure a desired response from listeners, speakers need to give their strategic objectives priority over their ethical obligations.
- Public speakers need to take their ethical responsibilities as seriously as their strategic objectives.
- Name-calling is ethical in public speaking because it is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
- If something is legal, it is also ethical.
- Avoiding sexist, racist, and other kinds of abusive language is important primarily as a matter of political correctness.
- As your textbook explains, the ethical obligation of a speaker to avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language is essentially a matter of political correctness.
- You have an ethical obligation to make sure the information you present in your speeches is accurate.
- As your textbook explains, ethical decisions are essentially a matter of personal whim or opinion.
- Because ethical decisions are complex, ethical choices are simply a matter of personal preference.
- Sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
- Ethical decisions need to be justified against a set of standards or criteria.
- As long as the goal of your speech is ethically sound, it is acceptable to use any means necessary to achieve your goal.
- Because persuasion is such a complex process, juggling statistics and quoting out of context to maximize your persuasive effect are ethically acceptable in speeches to persuade.
- As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian noted 2,000 years ago, the ideal of speechmaking is the good person speaking well.
- As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian noted 2,000 years ago, the ideal of speechmaking is to persuade the audience by any means necessary.
- A speaker's ethical obligations decrease as the size of the audience decreases.
- The first responsibility of a speaker is to make sure her or his goal is ethically sound.
- A public speaker need only be concerned about ethics in the conclusion of a speech.
- The ethical obligation of a speaker to be fully prepared increases as the size of the audience increases.
- Ethical issues can arise at every stage of the speechmaking process.
- Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.
- The aim of an ethical speaker is to accomplish his or her goals by any means necessary.
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