By the way…
22-May-06
The previous (Friends-locked) post doesn’t explicitly acknowledge one simple fact, which I *do* recognize:
Answers to an online poll are very abstract. If I ask “would you do/say this?” and you say “yes,” I understand that that’s your hypothetical answer. People do not always behave in ways that are consistent with what they *say* when they are actually confronted with a real situation or person.
I have never had someone express pity towards me for what I “felt” I “had” to do, even when the person is otherwise anti-cosmetic surgery. People tend to be more empathetic when they’re actually in a concrete situation.