>>there's also a penalty if my personal incompetence created the situation in the first place
>>intellectual rigor all goes out the window and I easily infer major character defects from as few as one data point.
Agreed on both points and very interesting to boot. I wonder how much of the latter is instilled by cultural upbringing. Eg, in Japan, from the same datapoint, would the average citizen infer, "I am unworthy and low class" as opposed to "I am stupid".
>>It felt ridiculous to ask my credit card bank to waive a late fee
Yes! This has actually opened up my ability to ask for seemingly undeserved things, in that if one kind of company has this odd but beneficial-to-me policy, other companies may well have similar ones, for similarly inscrutable economic reasons. (Pushing the stack, I wonder if this is how small kids feel.)
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Date: 2011-10-18 12:32 am (UTC)>>there's also a penalty if my personal incompetence created the situation in the first place
>>intellectual rigor all goes out the window and I easily infer major character defects from as few as one data point.
Agreed on both points and very interesting to boot. I wonder how much of the latter is instilled by cultural upbringing. Eg, in Japan, from the same datapoint, would the average citizen infer, "I am unworthy and low class" as opposed to "I am stupid".
>>It felt ridiculous to ask my credit card bank to waive a late fee
Yes! This has actually opened up my ability to ask for seemingly undeserved things, in that if one kind of company has this odd but beneficial-to-me policy, other companies may well have similar ones, for similarly inscrutable economic reasons. (Pushing the stack, I wonder if this is how small kids feel.)