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It’s just objectively dumb logic. Like “Wow it would really hurt my friend’s feelings to learn that our other mutual friend is deliberately manipulating a third party to sabotage her reputation,,,, so I guess I just won’t say anything and let her keep associating with both of them, staying open to manipulation and harm”. If my friend did that I would cut them off too, like why didn’t you warn me about such a psycho in my life!?!
I hate the trope where the savvy one doesn’t warn the naive one that a supposed friend is actually a manipulative psycho to “avoid hurting their feelings”. It just leaves them vulnerable to harm and makes an easily resolved issues go on forever.