Comment by tristor
1 month ago
The opposite of "an overabundance of honesty" is not lying. It's knowing when to not speak at all.
Perhaps rather than assuming I haven't mastered the skills of honesty, or that I am a dishonest person, you should really re-read what I wrote in all of my comments. I am not dismissing you, you are overreacting to a phrase I used which you understood differently than it was intended and has since been clarified.
It is a BS characterization - it wasn't something I said, but your imagination - and of course a characterization that served as something you could dismiss, which you did. Even the name of your fabricated characterization included the word "fallacy" - that doesn't leave much room to take the other person's idea seriously. It is much easier arguing with your personal strawperson than to understand a real person.
I didn't assume anything about you; I just made my point.