I see a lot of straw men in your examples. They are almost all cases of how to handle the success you receive from leaving your comfort zone.

In all of these things, you strike a balance and find what is moral or healthy--that is part of the journey. I wouldn't want to use possible straw-men morality as an excuse for continued ineptness. Like white hat security pros, you can know how to do something but choose not to do it.