There is a misalignment hazard to this framing: the person who decides to withhold the truth is not the audience who’d care to have their feelings spared. So the question of whether it’s “more important” might be ill-posed.
There is a misalignment hazard to this framing: the person who decides to withhold the truth is not the audience who’d care to have their feelings spared. So the question of whether it’s “more important” might be ill-posed.