The thing about dishonesty
It’s incredibly easy to do
If you do it often, it can become a habit
Once it is a habit, hyperbole can start to feel like honesty.
Which means that, while the difference between:
...a white lie, like ‘yes, I did take out the trash,’ (when you didn’t)
...and a bigger lie, like ‘yes, I did do my homework’ (when you didn’t)
...and an even bigger lie, like ‘yes, I did work for so and so, on these dates,’ (even though you didn’t)
...and a huge (potentially catastrophic) lie, like “no, I did not have sexual relations with that woman" (even when you did)
...is both large in degree and severity, it can feel all the same to a chronic liar.
Not only that, but to sound convincing, you have to remember, maintain, and above all, recite, every story, the way you told it first, from front to back, sequentially, and in reverse-order. A tall order for most folks, to say the least.
So while you can spend your days fibbing and spreading falsehoods, striving to be the best scam artist (or sociopath) there ever was, it's actually easier, freer, and yes, much more socially responsible, to simply just not tell lies.
To be completely, consistently, and unhesitatingly honest. Every time and everywhere. Or to, at least, strive to be.