badrabbit specifically used the word "weak": > Rule #1 of negotiation is never negotiate from a position if weakness. As the original comment suggests, this is

badrabbit specifically used the word "weak": > Rule #1 of negotiation is never negotiate from a position if weakness. As the original comment suggests, this is indeed fragility, you feep weak for being wrong and you would feel a lot weaker if you said it out loud. In my comment, I said that an apology would have been the proper resolution: > In this type of situation, the empathetic resolution would be to apologize for causing the victim's embarrassment, which most likely exceeds your own. And frankly, since you have called me a "radical" and a "commie" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23544865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23544865) because I had made two comments stating that an apology would be the correct approach in the situation, your perception of the Overton window needs some serious adjustment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window