In general I agree with what you're saying. Honesty is the best policy, and I think the best way to conduct yourself in personal relationships especially. I am always honest with friends, relatives and nearly always with co-workers. But like everything in life it is a little more complex than that.

For example, in a work situation your boss may ask you to lie to the customers for one reason or another, maybe the shop needs to be closed due to an infestation of vermin that need to be exterminated. But it would hurt the business to tell the truth about why it needs to close, and it's not anyone's fault that the infestation happened. So what do you do? You tell the lie your boss asked you to tell, to rectify the situation without destroying the businesses reputation... or you don't, that is of course an option if you're uncomfortable doing what your boss is asking. But you may get sacked, or the business may get damaged and you lose your job when it fails. My point is that there are grey areas in a lot of situations in life and this is one of them.

I really do agree with what you're saying at the end of this video though, about people not cheating on steem. It does ruin reputation to be seen as a cheater and I have actually been in curie as a curator for over a year now and have seen a huge amount of cheaters and content stealers on steem lose any chance they might have of finding some small success.

I once entered a writing competition on steem, I write fiction to a high standard and have had stories published in paper magazines. Anyway, it turned out that the winner of this competition had stolen the story from a website, which became apparent when I visited their blog after reading the winning story as I was thinking, here is someone who writes so well and I'd like to follow them. Their other posts were very badly written so I checked online with some sections of the story they'd posts and I discovered their dishonesty. I told the person who ran the competition about it and they didn't say thank you to me for discovering this plagiarism, they told me that they were pissed off with the person as that person was an active member of their discord community, yet if they had read any of that persons blog posts they would have realised that it was clear they didn't write to that standard and would have at least done a plagiarism check online. It all seemed a little strange to me at the time.

My point is that there is a lot of dishonesty on steem in general, and often you won't get any thanks for pointing it out. Mainly because it's some off the high up users who are the most dishonest. Not a popular thing to say maybe, but that doesn't make it any less true. I'm talking about the high sp users who run bots, or delegate nearly all there SP to bots that are detrimental to user experience on steem, yet they talk about community on discord and tell everyone else that they need to be buying steem or try to tell minnows/dolphins to not cash out any of their steem, even though they take tens of thousands of dollars out of the blockchain every year. They are literally in the business of dishonesty, that is what politics is and they are engaged in it. I have to be honest 😉, steem is just one big social experiment at the moment, and so far the experiment is only proving human nature to be as corrupt as it has always been.

From my perspective, I can only act in a moral, honest manner, and hope that others will do the same on here... but I never expect it... otherwise I'd be disappointed a lot of the time lol

Good on you though for trying to inspire people to act in a decent way 🙂