very nice article as usual, always looking forward to your uploads.
i think i agree with most, if not everything stated. at first and foremost, i think, it comes as a kind of self-test to stay true, just and upright to your own measures of integrity. you called it a 'little white lie', which seems (at least, for your own integrity towards yourself) not to be compromising it. this means, you still are kinda true to yourself.
i, for myself can say, i never lie. even if the truth seems a little more complicated in some ways, it has -at least in my personal and therefore maybe biassed or limited point of view- always worked out for me and those around me 'sharing my way'.
it leaves me to say, that there is maybe no universal solution, no swiss-army-knife to every obstacle you will ever encounter, as long as you stay true to yourself, you will make your way, wherever it may lead you...