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.