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Or an unconscious behavior. Or a benefit-of-doubt bias. Friends also tend to have edited friend-faces for each other that may not reveal uglier sides. Friendship is rarely as honest a thing as people pretend. Uncanny valley between oblivious and enabler.
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True. A friend might (and we all do) successfully hide a flaw. The interesting question is: what do you do when presented with evidence of the flaw. Blind/deny/ignore/accept/love?
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