My Honest Opinion

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Icelander

GURPS Honest is a compulsion. It interferes with the ability of the character to distinguish between serious crimes and the innumerable technical violations of laws that normal people engage in as part of normal life. It also comes bundled with a delusion, that other people also have this compulsion.

No it doesn't and no it doesn't. Honest people are normally perfectly capable of distinguishing between levels of severity of crime. They simply feel bad about committing even minor crimes. But they are not rendered incapable of understanding that police will not react the same way to every crime. Nor do they have a delusion. They only assume that other people are Honest until they have seen proof to the contrary. Seeing someone commit a crime is proof to the contrary. And if your interpretation of Honest is more extreme than the reactions you'd see from Superman or Constable Frasier from Due South...you're doing it wrong because the disadvantage was created for them.

Antitrust laws are a lot more recent than stock markets. In the vast majority of historical and even some current jurisdictions, a character may promise a certain number of stock certificates and deliver them, all right, but lie through his teeth about the value of the company. Nothing illegal about it.

No. He can't. He can sell crappy investments, but he can not promise something valuable and deliver something he knows to be valueless. If he sells snake oil and gives a spiel about the medical benefits of his product then he has to believe that snake oil has medical benefits. Otherwise he isn't delivering on his promise.