Mark Twain wrote that honesty means you don't have to remember anything. But it also means you don't have to worry about making mistakes.
If you said something terrible that made everyone decide that you're stupid and evil, there's no sense in futilely protesting that "that's not what you meant", or agonizing that you should have thought more carefully and said something else in order to avoid the outcome of everyone thinking that you're stupid and evil.
Strategy is deception. You said what you said in the situation you were in, and everyone else used the information in that signal as evidence for a Bayesian update about your intelligence and moral character. As they should. So what's the problem? You wouldn't want people to have false beliefs, would you!?
> everyone else used the information in that signal as evidence [...] what's the problem? You wouldn't want people to have *false beliefs*, would you!?
The "problem" is exactly when people have backwards, outright destructively wrong *priors* dictating how they "should" update on certain signals...
(Of course, *I* am perfect beyond consideration and every action I take is a signal of this perfection and would be recognized as such by a theoretical computationally unbounded observer. YMMV...)