Once you allow yourself to cheat (perhaps because the circumstances are so challenging, and after all ... it’s just this once and you’re a good person and it’s not the biggest deal in the world and other people do it) the more likely it is that you’ll cheat again.

When you bring cheating into the equation — even just once — you’ve told yourself that it’s now an option. That in special situations, it’s something you can do.

But once you break that seal … the next time, the threshold will be lower. And then lower after that. Until it’s more of a regular thing than “just this once”.

Best to not start cheating.

Ever.