For humans from our world, these questions do have answers—complicated answers having to do with things like map–territory confusions that make receiving bad news seem like a bad event (rather than the good event of learning information about how things were already bad, whether or not you knew it), and how it’s advantageous for others to have positive-valence false beliefs about oneself.
If you have bad characteristics (e.g. you steal from your acquaintances), isn’t it in your best interest to make sure this doesn’t become common knowledge? You don’t want to normalize people pointing out your flaws, so you get mad at people for gossiping behind your back, or saying rude things in front of you.
If you have bad characteristics (e.g. you steal from your acquaintances), isn’t it in your best interest to make sure this doesn’t become common knowledge? You don’t want to normalize people pointing out your flaws, so you get mad at people for gossiping behind your back, or saying rude things in front of you.