Emma Levine
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594 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 Sep
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Who am I to comment on your workplace behavior?
And so there's all kinds of contextual and cultural ingredients that go into how we approach this.
Sure.
I mean, I think Kate's story is such a great example of the costs of lying, the long-term costs of lying, even the pro-social ones.
So I think there's two ideas here.
One is related to something we talked about earlier is about the temporariness of the lie, right?
If you withhold information or lie about information for a specific amount of time and
given extenuated circumstances, and then you know and you do reveal it later, most people think that's tactful, that's prosocial, that is polite, that is ethical.
But when we keep withholding, it compounds over time, right?
The erosion of trust, the awkwardness, the lack of closeness between two people, right?
It all compounds.
It also requires us to keep lying to keep the same story alive.
And that's really costly.
Even beyond this single relationship, there is also research suggesting the more you lie, the less guilty you feel about future lies.
And that can be a cost as well.
I think it's great advice.
I mean, going back to kind of something that's been underlying a lot of these cases, right, the questions we need to ask ourselves is...
Can the truth have some long-term value or instrumental good, even if it will cause pain?
And the grieving process and saying goodbye and planning, those, despite being painful, are all instrumental goods.
And so when we don't give people the gift of fully coping and grappling with these things...
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