"The proclivity to hide or deny unflattering facts..."

This is an attempt to put words to a feeling that has been growing stronger for some time and pertains directly to the very touchy subject of presumptive virtue.

Generally speaking, I believe that no one (read that NO ONE) ever does anything but what they think is right (read that RIGHT — aka, utterly acceptable and often duty-driven by one's

I read the phrase that became the title of this post in an op-ed piece about Mormon polygamy and other, apparently, "unflattering facts" of Mormon history. Something about the line bothered me so much that I immediately had to stop reading and make some sense of the assumption. It is especially close right now because it rings of an air that is embedded deep in the current political discourse of today as well as the "-ism" rants flying around the media and internet.

I think part of what bugs me about this is that I've heard the same logic used to condemn another's opinion while simultaneously propping up the virtue of one's own.

exempli gratia. LGBT: "I can do and say what I want in public and if you complain then you are homophobic." Religionists: "I can do and say what I want in public and if you complain then you are impeding on my 1st Amendment rights."

I've reaching, but haven't gotten to the heart of what's bugging me yet...

Here's this: If we all really believed as similarly as we pretend to, we would all get along better. That we struggle so much to get along is a clear indicator that we do NOT have the same base value set.

The laws of a country do not indicate unanimity of opinion, but division.

Is there any law that says we eat? Relieve our bowels? Breathe?

Why not? Because there

We are assuming too much about the rightness of fairness. Fairness neither is nor has any inherent virtue. It disn't. Fairness is a tool, just as reason, faith, logic, law, physical force, restraint, or even "facts," for that matter, are TOOLS. They don't exist as objective standards of virtue. They don't exist for their own sakes. They exist to give us access to God. Period. And whatever and however we gain access to God, the Only True God, and the Perfect Son He sent, is fair game: full disclosure, partial disclosure, hearing both sides, or hearing one — to God, the point is not and has never has been fairness. It has been salvation and exaltation.