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Why is offering sympathy stupid?

At the very least, this is the acceptable social norm regardless of the other person's stature / social standing, is it not?




on internet (and other mass medias for that matter), this "norm" is very much accepted only due to the other person's stature or social standing.

so, interestingly enough, what you're using as an argument is in fact the exact reason why this seems wrong to me ;)




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