We would say lying is only human nature because your perspective of human nature is at a very human level and culturally conditioned to have a low bar of performance, because you are unaware, largely, of the divine realm and how things operate on that higher plane, and the consequences for all beings if they become out of divine alignment. The reality you face is that almost all humans are somewhat or greatly out of divine alignment and, under such conditions, people will serve themselves first and do what keeps them safe or gives them some kind of advantage. Such self-serving conduct is not in divine alignment because the ideal is to "Serve the self with no harm to others, and to raise up others with no harm to the self." In other words, do not make waves, harm no one, the self included, but always considering the other party to any kind of interaction. This indeed is a high standard, particularly in your realm when many of the people you deal with are flawed, maybe deeply so, and can be expected to use any perceived advantage against you, so to give up your control of things, to some extent, out of fairness might end up destroying you if they take unfair advantage, and in your world that is all too likely to happen.
So we see what this individual is saying, quite clearly, about the practicalities of lying. There indeed are criminals who are not of the most hardened sort, and upon being caught have genuine remorse and, in effect, have learned their lesson because they never want to go through such a thing again. If they lie to get out from under legal penalties, it might not harm anyone else greatly, nor even themselves in not undergoing a human punishment, but it will always be seen as a moral shortcut by the Law of Karma because this is true of all lies, big or small. So one must think carefully about the trade-offs involved in being too self-serving because it can come back to haunt you, through the Law of Karma seeking a kind of comeuppance that makes you pay back what you gained from the lie, and perhaps something more in the bargain.
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