Potential for advancement in every field is evenly distributed among all races, and nationalities. Just as I am obligated to be more intelligent than my ancestors. Learning is good. Lying is bad. All humans must be endowed with a thirst for truth.
Deception is evil whether it is directed to the individual or to the whole.
It robs potential by bringing into existence a spiraling vortex of error that wastes time causing deception to compound deception until the very concept of truth is weakened. It rattles it's ugly chains thru the species as a whole. There is no little white lie, there are only big monstrous ones. Goodness and truth are the same thing. Self destructive habits are bad.