If a person lies and lies and lies then I'm a fool to believe the validity of anything that person has said. That person is not going to be inconvenienced by a promise that they've made. I really try to speak truthfully at all times. Sure, sometimes I exaggerate and embellish and pretend that I know something with great certainty when I'm sort of winging it, but as a general rule you can take anything I say as the gospel truth. I cannot stand the feeling that someone doesn't trust my words and I loathe getting caught in a lie.
Unfortunately, I have a natural ability to lie and I enjoy lying and I have a long, storied history of telling lies, all facts which hinder my truth-telling abilities. Nonetheless, when I slip and when I'm caught I 'fess up. I don't shrug my shoulders and say: "Tough shit."
If a person has a lot of good qualities and a few bad ones, or conversely, a lot of bad ones and a few good ones, I try to evaluate the overall body of work. I try not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.
Sometimes I see people who are so enamored with a single thing that they can put up with a whole lot of bad things, which is a bad thing.
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