Your question is irrelevant to my main point: that you're making a huge, unwarranted assumption that people who don't reply are necessarily ungrateful. As some

Your question is irrelevant to my main point: that you're making a huge, unwarranted assumption that people who don't reply are necessarily ungrateful. As someone who has rejected people in the past and has told people why they were rejected, I have never expected nor felt in any way entitled to receive a response. I have told them why I have decided not to hire them. Some people thank me for the critique. Others do not. It doesn't matter and I certainly don't make the huge logical leap of assuming that those who don't reply dislike me personally.