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Integrity is a virtue, not a value.
The values aren't necessarily relevant after I've precommitted to the bet, but they're absolutely relevant to whether I'd precommit to the bet. If murder is one of the options, count me out.
My reason for carrying the deal through is (partially) that it promotes virtue. I do not see any arguments that it cannot be so.
Too vague.
What's vague? Let me try to spell this out in excruciating detail:
Making good on one's commitments promotes the virtue of integrity.
Integrity is constitutive of good character.
One cannot consistently act as a person of good character without having it.
To act ethically is to act as a person of good character does.
Ethics specifies what one has most reason to do or want.
So, if you ask me what I have most reason to do in a circumstance where I've made a commitment, ceteris paribus, I'll respond that I'll make good on my commitments.