Yes, exactly. It makes it difficult for people to trust any of them which is unfair to the ones that are doing the right thing. Still, once trust is broken it's difficult to mend. It takes so much effort to build a good reputation and hardly any at all to destroy it. It must be difficult for those following behaviours and reactions like this fine gentleman is displaying - They start at below neutral and have a lot of ground to make up to get anywhere which, I'm not sure is even possible.
If I was this fellow's compatriot's I'd be loudly denouncing him and creating as much distance as possible...But they don't do that, they remain silent. That says a lot.
