[Bill29221]

Not expecting our deference will be abused, we’re slow to warn seniors — often only insisting on propriety when we’re hurt/angry. Joe B nailed it in pointing out that the root ‘age’ factor is in our deference. At any age, if abuse is tolerated, it grows. Extending the idea of age-indifference and speaker independence, Internet offers an objective analogy. Computer messages are ‘framed’ to handle issues of timing, purpose, resource sharing, etc. Designers didn’t set it up that way because it’s ‘nice’, but because it helps prevent communication breakdowns. Conversational ‘etiquette’ does many of the same things for humans, for the same reason.

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