The sad part is that this is really proving to be true in our society in general. You could add UNC****'s shenanigans to this but also most of the actions at the top of our political system on both parties. Well, you can add the world to that. China building islands and claiming them as "long standing, traditional territories" so they can overfish and mine the ocean with impunity, Russia justifying subverting its neighbors, funding and materially supporting rebels in those neighbors. USA justifying alliances with feudal leaders of arab countries that we can get to agree with some foreign policy objective, the internet being the source of obfuscation instead of promoting transparency. It is disappointing to think that I'll live long enough to see the world fall into some sort of distopian society that only a bad science fiction writer would attempt to publish, but there it is. We have few morals, no absolutes, little that we will hold fast. We have become self-serving at the cost of any moral high ground or ideals.
Sorry... feeling more than a bit pessimistic today.
You have nothing to be sorry for! I would call it realism, not pessimism. Too many people don't call it like they see it, they call it like they are told to see it.