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Thea person you are responding to understood that; what they didn’t understand was what the person they were responding to had come to understand about part of
by lukas099 3y ago
Thea person you are responding to understood that; what they didn’t understand was what the person they were responding to had come to understand about part of the population from the person they were responding to conflating thanking with understanding.
And, I think that was the hardest to understand thing I’ve ever said.
- mejutoco 3y agoThe person read thanking and registered apologizing. My hypothesis is because they see both as more or less equivalent, or a form of weakness.
- tfourb 3y agoAnd if I may expand on this, if someone conflates thanking and apologizing and/or associates both with weakness, it has profound implications for how that person will behave within a society. It may (at least partly) explain why there is so little "instinctive" kindness towards other people, especially when these people are not part of your social circle or they are "abstract" (i.e. when they are featured in the media).