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Re:Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark? by qup on Thursday May 30, 2024 @09:45PM (#40530663)
I don't think it sounds bold or empowering. I think it describes reality accurately, without bullshit. I wish someone had explained it to me as a young man. In my father's home, any rule was absolute law, and the consequence was always outsized.

The real world isn't like that.

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Re:Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark? by neilv on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:00PM (#40530739)
I'm reminded of some popular news reporting of a psychological study (who knows whether it's reproducible), something like... People who behaved in some specific dishonest way also thought other people tended to have a similar level of honesty to themselves. Compared to people who didn't behave in that dishonest way, and who thought others tended to have a similar level of honesty to themselves.

How the causality works there, I don't have good guesses.

But the supposed phenomenon could reduce to simply differing conceptions of what the real world is.

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