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"treat others as you wish to be treated" It's a useful minimum surely? How else should you treat a significantly different set of people? Yes once you get to
by benj111 8y ago
"treat others as you wish to be treated"
It's a useful minimum surely? How else should you treat a significantly different set of people?
Yes once you get to know them, you learn how they want to be treated (mainly?) based on how they treat you and others.
Are you talking about using general formal politeness?
- CJefferson 8y agoThe problem is it sounds seductive, but fails when your rules of pilteness don't line up with other people's. For example, I hate being asked questions multiple times. Therefore when i went to ubiversity, if I asked someone is they wanted me to buy a round, and they said no, I would not accept the answer. After some months I discovered I was considered tight, as the first offer is always refused, so "doesn't count".
- benj111 8y agoRight, but 'first contact' situations generally call for both sides to be forgiving of the other side. Theres plenty of time over the ensuing months to communicate your preferences. FWIW I wouldn't say theres a particular rule requiring offering to buy a round multiple times, so I'd have have been viewed as tight also, even if I was trying to fit in with normal convention.