Most people live a fine life utilizing both honesty and white lie. Any normal parent won't look at their daughter in an ugly dress and yell, "That's ugly." Then

Most people live a fine life utilizing both honesty and white lie. Any normal parent won't look at their daughter in an ugly dress and yell, "That's ugly." Then you just lack social awareness. Here is the problem though. Much like the juxtaposition of equality and liberty, our beliefs about honesty and our intuition about honesty belie each other. (This might not make much sense but bear with me here.) If we believe that "Being honest always" is good (and that is what the article espouses), then we have already created a huge contradiction within ourselves. By holding that belief, you feel slightly righteous, but not quite so accurate. Because you can't always be honest. By holding that belief, you are always selling yourself short. But if you believe "I will use honesty and white lie to the best of my ability to do the most good for the other person", then you have an accurate (and also quite beautiful) map of the world. Hope that answers your point.