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.

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

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.