What makes hearing such a confession so threatening that most people would rather be deceived?

是什么因素让忏悔具有如此威胁，以至于大多数人宁愿被蒙在鼓里？

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However,sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad.

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(OMITTED) The debt crisis is threatening to sink the euro currency, so the European Union has pledged to guarantee loans totaling around a trillion dollars.

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Theirs were not life-threatening injuries, so the 56th slowed down.

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But it is Macedonia's own tensions that make instability across the border so threatening.

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Why was an effort to prevent bribery and corruption abroad so threatening to these corporations that they had to challenge the basic premise of public disclosures?

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And though fewer firms are defaulting than were doing so or threatening to do so a few months ago, the ratio of upgrades to downgrades by Moody's, a credit-rating agency, continues to decline.

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