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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
- Message-ID: <77584@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:32:30 GMT
- References: <JMD.93Jan22123711@lion.bear.com> <C19ryE.39C@portal.hq.videocart.com> <JMD.93Jan25144223@lion.bear.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
-
- >dfuller@portal.hq.videocart.com (Dave Fuller) writes:
- > The problem with the other "white lies" (i'll be at the party) is a
- > multiple problem i think. This is done because people hate conflict.
- > Why say "no" and have to explain why ? You can just say "yes", avoid it,
- > then get excused for it later. The conflict avoidance brings on more than
- > just your typical lies however. How often does somebody make you angry
- > (even in the most minor sense) ? What do you do ? Do you tell them on the
- > spot to stop, or go and tell somebody else how mad the person made you.
- > All too often, alot of people know what is bothering somebody. It seems that
- > everybody EXCEPT the person CREATING the problem is aware that it exists.
-
- >Yup. Yet another breakdown in communication. We are unwilling to
- >confront each other on even the smallest issues. So the issues
- >aggregate, and snowball until they become a major issue. The kind
- >that cause relationships to fail. Even the kind that causes wars.
-
- I'm really annoyed at the self-righteous tone of this thread.
-
- Hm... do you think that if I had decided not to post that, it might cause
- a war someday?
-
- Stef
- stef@apple.com
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- and not knowing how. --Seneca
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