People lie, lots of times every single day. We rationalize it, put them in little categories to make them seem justifiable. There’s no such thing as white lies or beige lies. They don’t come in colors, they just come in bunches, one after the other, mostly about things that didn’t need to be lied about.
In many, many situations it’s just easier to lie than to tell the truth. I seem to excel in bearing false witness, so one day I counted.