Sense of duty is an obstacle to self-honesty.

That wrongdoing of yours was not done by your mother or father, nor by your brother or sister, nor by your friends and companions, nor by your relatives and family members, nor by the deities, nor by ascetics and brahmins. Rather, that wrongdoing was done by you, and you yourself will have to experience its result.’ AN 3.36 For one performing an evil action there is no place in the world called “hidden.” The self within you knows, man, what is true or false. Indeed, friend, you despise the good witness in yourself as you conceal the evil doer existing within yourself. AN 3:40 When you know of something: this leads to passion, not to dispassion; to being fettered, not to being unfettered; to accumulating, not to shedding; to self-aggrandizement, not to modesty; to discontent, not to contentment; to entanglement, not to seclusion; to laziness, not to aroused persistence; to being burdensome, not to being unburdensome’: You may hold with certainty, ‘This is not the Dhamma, this is not the Vinaya, this is not the Teacher’s instruction.’ AN 8.53 But when, Kālāmas, you know for yourselves: ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blameworthy; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if accepted and undertaken, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them. AN 3.65 For essays on Dhamma, transcripts of Dhamma talks, and to download audio talks and audio sutta recordings, visit www.believeinwhatyousee.com