Laws come and go; the ethics stays.

The title is a quote from Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s book. I thought it sticks quite well about the character of the persons we deal with.
The previous posting went through a liar’s sayings when we dealt with a monetary award from the job done. In war, life, business it is imperative, at least important, to be able to trust a person next to you. When a lie starts, then as old quote says:

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

I once faced a situation when I was not having any identity proofing documents, but had upcoming meeting coming in a place which required me to have such to go there, according to law. I was told that it is OK to come, that papers are not normally asked at all.

I decided not to go. Felt that due my profession being based on trust, integrity, my believability is on the line.

It happend that it both increased my self-feeling, but also increased the trust people see on me, so it was also a professionally and personally worthwhile to take short term hit, for long term gain. **It takes years to build the trust, and it can be lost in seconds, if you are not having skin on the game.**