HONEST Index
Honesty is defined in
the dictionary as "truthful" or "trustworthy".
In the Ayn Rand's
ethics, honesty is vigorously sticking to the facts of reality, and
equally vigorously rejecting the unreal, the arbitrary.
Honesty in the form of sticking relentlessly to facts is a key characteristic of some of the most brilliant scientists and productive geniuses in man's history. Kepler.htm
Evasion of reality is the essence of dishonesty
and a very dangerous moral evil. Consider the amount of evidence Adolph Hitler
had to ignore to decide the victims in his death camps were less than human.