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If I could get what I wanted and if I could avoid responsibility, why not lie? And the first answer is, well, what makes you so sure you want to avoid responsibility, except narrowly in this moment, because it’s not a good medium to long-term strategy and everyone knows it? And what makes you think that manipulating people in the short term so that you can gratify a whim is going to be a useful iterative strategy? It’s like it’s not. So you can dispense with that. And so what do you do when you tell the truth instead, is you predicate your actions on an axiom of faith, which is that nothing better can happen than that which happens if you live in truth. And that’s a statement of deep religious faith, because the evidence for that can only be gathered as a consequence of manifesting the actions that are predicated upon that axiom of faith. You don’t know till you lay it out.