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When my girlfriend broke up with me, we had a lot of shared stuff in my apartment we had purchased together. I gave her back everything she wanted and more. Wh
by adgar 14y ago
When my girlfriend broke up with me, we had a lot of shared stuff in my apartment we had purchased together. I gave her back everything she wanted and more.
Why? I didn't owe her anything. We'd purchased things together, lived together, ownership was undefined, and hell, she left me. Oh wait - human decency. That's what it is.
I guess since HN is full of armchair CEOs, dismissing respectful business relationships is in vogue here.
- davidu 14y agoYour analogy makes no sense.
- adgar 14y agoIt makes perfect sense if you don't think about it too much, which I suspect you are. Here's the general pattern: You don't have to do X to help Y, even though you said you would, and it'd be nice. But nobody would blame you if you didn't do X. Indignant, you make a big deal about how you don't have to do X and it's Y's fault for not taking care of things earlier. Unsurprisingly you look like a selfish shithead in the eyes of decent people.