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Sigh. I'm truly old. That's what etiquette is for, so you have a framework to know that context.
by groby_b 9y ago
Sigh. I'm truly old. That's what etiquette is for, so you have a framework to know that context.
- emodendroket 9y agoWell, alternatively, we can use our brains and think about questions like "if I am late to this event, will other people be waiting for me/disturbed?" to determine how serious a violation of etiquette it would be to be late.
- groby_b 9y agoWorks almost equally well. Etiquette is nothing but a way to codify the answers, a shared agreement on the rules. (I say "almost" because like any set of rules, it makes it harder to get judgment calls wrong.) I didn't mean to imply it's a magic cure-all, just that it's a pre-shared context that makes it easy to make those decisions.