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I saw no assumption about your motivation, he just found your response the same as that which he would "expect to hear from the sort of person who stiffs people
by nknighthb 13y ago
I saw no assumption about your motivation, he just found your response the same as that which he would "expect to hear from the sort of person who stiffs people". I happen to agree with him.
Noting this does not require thinking you are one of those people. There is an explanation that is at least equally plausible: You, like so many others, have been inculcated with contradictory views by a society which gives power freely to the dishonest, while purporting to value honesty, but in a form designed to further empower the dishonest.
- grey-area 13y agoIf it doesn't apply to me, it's a meaningless response and a non-sequitur. I think it rather more likely it did and the insinuation (which you have extended with your own charming and baseless insinuation) was based on untested assumptions which could not be more wrong.
- dllthomas 13y ago"Noting this does not require thinking you are one of those people." Noting this does not require thinking that you are one of these people, in the context of strict logical inference. Noting this is absolutely an (oblique) accusation in the context of a conversation in English. Pragmatics is an interesting field.