nudity

ah those Emperors! They of course will never admit to being naked themselves. They will find every sort of fig leaf to wave in front of their private parts, assuring us all (and themselves) that these have been woven out of the most rare, delicate and sympathetic threads. And of course ordinary people want to believe that they have been witness to the delicate threads of Emperors... so they will bow down before them, feeling the nudity, nodding their heads at the seeming transparency of the threads.

Do the emperors know they have no clothes? and is it worse to know you are naked and lead others to believe you aren't, or worse to manage even to deceive yourself?

Perhaps it depends on why you feel you need the deceit; and perhaps on whether you really do (need it).

We aren't allowed to judge as HR 'educators': we are only asked to understand. So even if they didn't seem to us to need the deceit - they clearly 'did'. Otherwise they wouldn't have deceived (being good and honourable human beings).

I want to be told if I am looking naked (or ever looking like an emperor)