In a nonviolent argument, it is always the person with the higher integrity that wins, even if their opinion is not correct.
It is not sufficient to act on true information, you must also act on the right true information. Integrity is the degree to which you have reason to believe that you are acting on the right true beliefs, regardless of the groundtruth.
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Integrity implies honesty. If you ignore ground truth, you must be justifying it by saying the end justifies the means, or maybe you suspect that the 'ground truth' provides an incomplete picture or that it is open to interpretation.
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Weirdly, moral integrity sometimes requires to accept that you lie to yourself about your own motivations, before you have proven that a mismatch between motivation and truth is the correct solution.
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