Hah, dishonest. First of all it's no more dishonest than dressing up in other ways, with clothes or make up or what have you. Secondly if people are "impressed" or whatever by the stature you project what does it matter if it is "real" or not? Is the experience diminished because they didn't happen to be "born" with that stature? If we're going to rationalize things like that, you might as well go into why you think someone being born with genes that facilitate a certain height is more "impressive" than someone who isn't so tall, naturally. If you feel that someone being tall projects "power" or something, then what does it matter for that visceral moment that they were born with it or not? You're going to give a person a raise for projecting a certain stature, but get upset when a person happened to be not-so tall?