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Nobody enjoys being on the receiving end of bad news. That part is obvious. What's less obvious is how much worse bad news gets when the person delivering it optimizes for their own comfort instead of yours.

Everyone lies. That's not a controversial statement and I don't mean it as a judgment - it's just an observable fact about how people operate. But not all lies serve the same purpose, and I think most people don't spend much time asking themselves who a given lie is actually for.