My Honest Opinion

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

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.

Both characters exist in extremely parochial settings where the laws that the character must follow are more or less considered synonomous with Justice and the American Way. Those characters can only have GURPS Honesty if the GM promises that no place that they ever visit will ever be considered to have any laws that differ substantially from the personal moral code of the character.

Also, in any media I've seen, both characters routinely broke laws, but because the writers (and most viewers) don't really know much about law, it doesn't matter.

GURPS Honesty can work for 'heroic' progatonists in children's fiction, but in any setting remotely resembling the real world, it is by no means a heroic trait. That's because the more any setting resembles the real world, the greater the divide between 'trying to do what is right' and 'compelled to obey all laws and do your best to make sure everyone else does too' becomes.