Why can't we hope for an honest world?
RP, I hear you; please believe me. I'm sorry if I was being too flip, although I do believe deeply in the civil-libertarian principles I was trying to defend, and I also believe in sex. Of the good kinds, admittedly not always easy to find, but certainly of multiple kinds.
More than that, though, I believe in love. Honesty is great, and I try for honesty, and when I was younger I would have roasted people over the coals for betraying me in the slightest. But you also have to decide whether you love people enough to forgive them sometimes, and then also to recognize that you need forgiveness too. Honesty is great, but love is better.