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Then rationalists are terribly vicious people.
Honesty is a virtue. Too much concern for truth-telling is a vice (one might call such person a 'stickler').
This post does not ask you to pursue friendship at the expense of learning the truth. It instead suggests a way of helping other people come to the truth, in a way that can advance friendship.
Once again, we are running into the problem of the term "rational" referring to at least two different concepts.
A commitment to epistemic rationality means taking maximum care that one's own beliefs are correct. It doesn't say anything about what one should say to others.