There is indeed a world of difference between those who are paragons of virtue as opposed to those who are quick to hide behind falsehood and falsity, primarily done as an act of deceit or selfishness. One of the reasons why we have laws is so that those laws can be fairly applied to those who are unlawfully false to not only the society that they are a member of, but also false in a way in which they try to get over on the other, by cheating, deceiving, or manipulating them.
The reason that so many are false to others and often don’t even desire to admit this to their own self, is the fact that they want to have something or do something in which they typically lack the knowledge or resources to accomplish, or simply lack the patience or skillset to get it done, and therefore find that by taking a shortcut which involves being untruthful serves their purpose, and they subsequently don’t care how it affects others or choose to simply put that type of thought far away from their mind.
So too, the more that we lie, the easier it is to keep on lying, along with the salient fact that once we go down the path of lying, we frequently therefore have to come up with even more lies, in order to protect that first lie, which is why we ought not to lie in the first place, because the path so created, can easily take us down to the type of character destruction that we truly did not want to visit or to be a part of, yet we now are.
Those that are false in small things are the very same that we cannot trust in big things, because if they feel the need to be false in something that is relatively trivial, how much more then are they going to be tempted to be deceptive in obtaining something that they feel is of extreme importance that they get the desired result that they are determined to have, which is why the time to root out lies and falsehoods is at the very beginning of one’s life, which is therefore part of the responsibility of good parenting as well as good mentoring to address, because it is important for those that are being false, to be held to account to it, as well as it is for them to understand why it is so important to be honest and forthright, instead.
It is a truism that those who are overly selfish are going to be prone to lying, because once a person decides that they have to have something but has not been able to obtain it legitimately, they will, if so prone to falsehood, often continue their pursuit by being deceptive or through the usage of falsehood. After all, their self-interest trumps being true to those that have done them no wrong, and of which, those that are false, will justify even their most nefarious deeds as being justified, because they are always able to point out some other person or situation, in which, the perpetrator was even worse than they were, even though, two wrongs don’t make a right – and that which is false can never be true.