"Your argument"? I put it in quotes to indicate it's the attitude I'm explaining rather than a belief I'm putting forward. > Pretty much all norms like this ar

"Your argument"? I put it in quotes to indicate it's the attitude I'm explaining rather than a belief I'm putting forward. > Pretty much all norms like this are culturally determined with just-as-strong-arguments being available for doing it some other way My argument is that social signals of respect aren't inherent or reasoned from first principles but reflect shared narratives and power dynamics. If you are trying to determine One Right Logical Way To Do Things, you're misunderstanding the fundamentals of how social norms work.