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Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't successful in reading your original comment that way.

In my experience, sometimes you have to lie because being sometimes situations arise where being honest hurts my immediate credibility which ultimately can hurt our relationship.

Lying to me is a tool that has to be used effectively. It's a fine line where if you do it too little, people think of you as a tool or you hurt yourself. If you do it a lot, nobody trusts you. It's a socially something that should be expected, but something for you to consider to yourself.

fwiw I think that a single letter probably would’ve your original comment clearer, specifically pluralizing the first instance of “moral”:

> The problems at work often comes down to morals

It is relatively uncommon to use the singular moral in a sentence, in my experience. You can maybe remember this by associating it with the idea that people have a set of morals, not just one.