The importance of letting someone 'save face'

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

When saving face is paramount to all other considerations, others invariably pay the price in order for the untrammeled supremacy of the ego to persist. But by permitting someone to "save face", are we not providing a constructive way of keeping them within a moral community?

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