It's really not useful to put people in categories of doing these things by their fundamental nature, or not. I think nearly everyone has lied at some point, m

It's really not useful to put people in categories of doing these things by their fundamental nature, or not. I think nearly everyone has lied at some point, most consequentially. Who hasn't been taken by a lie, or repeated something they knew they couldn't verify? I'm pretty confident in my positions and outspoken about them but I don't always speak up when I ought, and I often speak up when I shouldn't. There is no "timid segment of the population" there is only us. It's much more constructive to study the pressures, constraints, incentives, and conditions that lead individuals and groups into these actions.