Don’t be confused. Honesty is independent of loyalty, love, faithfulness, and certainly of greed, lust, and selfishness. It is it’s own verity. Loyalty is stripped of it’s virtue when it motivates lying. To lie because you love fills the heart of love with filth. Lying to demonstrate faithfulness is oxymoronic.
It is fantasy to believe a person to be honest if he lies only for very good reasons. It is worse than fantasy. To believe that is to believe a lie is truth. Honesty is respect and reverence for truth. Someone who will lie for you will lie to you, so don’t believe someone who tries to flatter or honor you by lying for you. That person lies and is not to be trusted.
The “lie for a good reason” is the first dilution leading to the total moral dissolution expressed in Pilate’s deep, doubting question, “What is truth?” When you no longer can see truth, when you begin to doubt it’s very existence, you have reached inevitable consequence of lies.
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