Common use lowers value. Rarity and scarcity increase value, e.g, diamonds.
I relational situations, think of someone throws around compliments for any and everything, his compliment reduced in value; however, the value of a compliment from someone who seldom doles them out is priceless.
Common use lowers value. Rarity and scarcity increase value, e.g, diamonds.
I relational situations, think of someone throws around compliments for any and everything, his compliment reduced in value; however, the value of a compliment from someone who seldom doles them out is priceless.
If that's your thinking, you'd better stop lowering the value of such things. Stop doing kind gestures towards others today.
Depends on the type of love. Romantic love should be exclusive.
Not that hugs have to be romantic.
Depends on the type of love. Romantic love should be exclusive.
Not that hugs have to be romantic.
Of course. I understood what you meant and I agree with your opinion.No one said that hugs were only romantic.
What I argue is that hugs should be reserved for some people and some occasions, not all people and all occasions.
Yes, I know. That is the reason why I wrote that all hugs are not romantic.No, and I don't think we are talking about romantic hugs in this thread.
My point was not that all hugging is abnormal. In some instances it is normal. In some it's not. It's changed, in a bad way, in that people I hardy know, men and women, hug now, when it was not always that way.
Hopefully its a fad, but it would be nice to return to days when men behaved more like men.
Yep. You nailed it. The "good" keeps the zombie question going as much as the question does.
I was merely speaking of the etiquette of shaking hands, not wars or women's rights, or the treatment of Southern Belles. You seem to have a bit of resentment toward southerners...thanks for giving my very first post such a warm welcome.
I was merely speaking of the etiquette of shaking hands, not wars or women's rights, or the treatment of Southern Belles. You seem to have a bit of resentment toward southerners
A lot depends on people's culture. Remember the pictures of Yasser Arafat greeting and hugging foreign leaders? this is the custom in many countries. What I object to is busybodies in North America making sweeping assumptions about people from other countries.Reading this thread, I agreed with you, yet agreed with others and couldn't figure out my ambivalence. I feel a bit uncomfortable when people I hardly know hug me (except children, that is the exception). I wondered why, since I am by nature a huggy person (with people I know well). I think this post hits it the nail on the head. A hug from someone you hardly know seems to cheapen the gesture.
Many people equate a hug with a handshake now. I think that is the problem, not a problem with hugging- a problem
with making it cheap.
I was referring to people in the West, not other countries. Even in our country, a hug means different things to different people, as evidenced by the replies in this thread.A lot depends on people's culture. Remember the pictures of Yasser Arafat greeting and hugging foreign leaders? this is the custom in many countries. What I object to is busybodies in North America making sweeping assumptions about people from other countries.
Men shake hands but brothers, that are Loyal and Love one another deeply, hug.When did the world become so huggy? I've met people for the first time, and they want to hug me! It's odd.
My guess is that the feminizing of culture has led to this current hugfest.
My motto is, why hug when a handshake will do. (stole that line from Frasier)
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