Comment by coldtea

>You do assume that.

The quote you pasted is about axiomatic reasoning not being able to conclude that "being correct is enough". Not that the people I mention didn't use any logical reasoning / axiomatic induction at all. As I wrote, they used some, but combined with ignoring some necessary steps (either because they didn't occur to them, or because of an implicit bias).

>I don't think myself or people as perfectly rational.

No, but some people do. In anycase, I wasn't talking about people who "think themselves as perfectly rational". I was talking about people who think that their reasoning that "truth trumps delivery" came in a perfectly rational way (whether they consider themselves otherwise rational in their other ideas/behavior or not).

>Tailoring everything to the other person and being kind can lend into being straight up manipulative.

Or it might not. It's how you use it. One can also use the truth manipulatively (e.g. to hurt the other, invoke some inferiority complex and numerous other ways), in cases when a little white lie would not have had the desired effect on the other.