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The person read thanking and registered apologizing. My hypothesis is because they see both as more or less equivalent, or a form of weakness.
by mejutoco 3y ago
The 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).