Comment by johnnyanmac
17 hours ago
When the risk can involve lasting consequences (especially in places like work/school), it makes me not want to bother.
17 hours ago
When the risk can involve lasting consequences (especially in places like work/school), it makes me not want to bother.
The risk does not involve lasting consequences. Just don’t make things a big deal and people will mostly follow your lead.
Lasting consequences include social outcasting and even dismissal. Those are pretty lasting.
>Just don’t make things a big deal
That sadly doesn't stop the runmors from flowing. That's the real damning thing about such social faux pas. Your reputation can be ruined without having a single person say it to your face. That's both unsettling and morbid for how you look to humanity.
You have to mess up pretty badly for this to happen. Most people would be a lot less worried what others think of them if they realized how rarely the do.
The reality is that most people are too busy thinking about themselves to spend any time thinking about you or a random little interaction that didn’t land
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If you’re not talking to anyone, you’re already a social outcast. In my mind the risk of saying something wrong is much less than the risk of being omitted through inaction.
I'm trying to figure out in what situation asking someone a general question like 'how is your day going?' going to have lasting negative consequences.