I wouldn’t say “trying virtuously,” though maybe that’s right. I definitely wouldn’t talk about a “motivation to speak only the truth.” It seems so rigid that I would call it a ritual or a superstition, a sense that there is only one correct thing that can be said.
Perhaps the problem is that the (unconscious) goal is not to communicate, but to show off to third parties, or even to make the listener feel stupid?
I wouldn’t say “trying virtuously,” though maybe that’s right. I definitely wouldn’t talk about a “motivation to speak only the truth.” It seems so rigid that I would call it a ritual or a superstition, a sense that there is only one correct thing that can be said.
Perhaps the problem is that the (unconscious) goal is not to communicate, but to show off to third parties, or even to make the listener feel stupid?