So with more thought here's my response to Nat... Although I don't particularly like it, its not evil to behave as you've described behaving so long as you have rule 6) and within a certain inside circle you do behave as I've described. With strangers there's a limit to how much you can put yourself at risk, but there needs to be a boundary inside of which people can trust you to live more or less by balancing the two rules that I described.