The fact is that when you write code in modular fashion one part of your system cannot always know how to handle errors itself. In such cases the only thing you can do is pass error somewhere else and there are in general two ways to do it: exceptions and return codes. And exceptions is just a more robust way to do it.
Example: say you are implementing business logic for your application which has multiple frontends (CLI, web and GUI). This part of your application encounters an error (let say a database connection error). What should it do? Print HTML page with error? Produce plain text formated error message for CLI? Write something in the log? No, it is not responsiblity of this part of your system to do these things, it is responsiblity of the frontend part to handle this error. So you just raise an exception and let the frontend to handle it.
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