Do you believe people would rather hear a truth they don’t like, or live with a lie they know isn’t true?

Seems when it comes to truthfulness and honesty people are a little disingenuous, it appears many would rather live hearing something they know is not true and treating it as fact than to hear the truth even if it not what they want to hear or is unfavorable. Do you believe people would rather go alone with a fact that wasn’t true over a truth that was painful or unpleasant to admit? For example, a woman would live believing she got the promotion because she was better qualified when she knows there were others way more qualified than her but the real fact was one of the pawn brokers had the hots for her and pulled some string. A boy believes he didn’t make the track team because budget cuts shorten the team roster and not because of the true fact he just couldn’t run fast enough because he was 58lb overweight. What do you think, live with the truth no matter what, or hide behind an untrue fact, what would most people do?