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Originally Posted by shalym
Ah...but see, you (and others) keep justifying it by saying that some people are just nervous talkers, or that they are lonely, so we should just let them be who they are.
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I am not trying to justify
anything.
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Originally Posted by shalym
You are ignoring the fact that for some people, having a stranger trying to make small talk is extremely stressful...to the point that I sometimes choose not to go anywhere because of it. (and thus am trapped in my home, and then become one of the lonely people)
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I'm ignoring no such thing. If there were boorish small-talkers here who were staunchly defending their right to totally ignore your signals to be left alone, I would make the same suggestion of practicing more tolerance to them as well. But they're not here.
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Originally Posted by shalym
Why do I have to be tolerant of *their* issues, but they don't have to tolerant of mine?
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Because tolerance of the differences in others is not about reciprocity. It's not about paying a fee to get goods in return. Never has been.