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I see, I see, but how much of that is mere pragmatism and how much is you rationalizing the virtue of politeness, which we've been raised with among other such ideology-related memes?
If politeness = effectiveness, then where does the rationalization come into play?
And I don't mean politeness as a Trojan horse for avoidance and euphemism.