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Truth-telling and doing what is right should be the hallmarks of writers. If you are a writer as the blogger has been saying again and again, you have created for yourself a pulpit that requires you to look for and speak and write the truth.
A writer has a vision of what society should be: a community of equals who give due respect to the other person whatever his station in life may be. As a writer, you are supposed to know more things--social,political, cultural, economics-- about what is going on in the society than anybody else. You know the ways of men, their foibles, their secrets. You may write about them, but on a case to case basis.
As a lawmaker in the context of his vision of society, he is a model of what is good and what is not ugly. If this is not so, what is his or her credibility as a writer?
What is honesty and integrity that should govern the behavior of the writer?
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