Establishing a good reputation and adhering to your principles are crucial aspects of life. Building them requires effort, yet they can be easily lost.
Discussion
Sometimes people are looking for sensation rather than truth and no matter what, they'll attack you. Adhering to principles can also be regarded as being stubborn or rigid. So essentially, if people are dumb enough and arrogant enough not to be straight-forward about (false) accusations, then this cannot be avoided.
