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Originally Posted by mickthinks
You realise that doesn't address what I said? The question whether this particular action could reasonably be expected to make the child cry might appear to be settled by the fact that she cried and people didn't say "How weird! No one would have expected that".
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Perhaps I don't understand what you meant then. I understood you to be saying that I used the girl's tears as evidence of rudeness, rather than come to that conclusion based on my own social assumptions about what sort of responses would be appropriate in that situation. Now, it looks like you are suggesting that I am using the fact that the girl cried to determine, ex post facto, that a flippant response could reasonably be expected to hurt her feelings. Is that what you're saying?