you can be carried by the stream, or you can learn to steer.
Over time I’ve noticed that when conversations about complex human behavior rely heavily on words like always, never, everyone, or no one, my confidence in the contribution tends to drop. Absolutes are not automatically wrong and people often use them as shorthand, but when they appear repeatedly in discussions about messy human systems they can signal oversimplification. Human behavior varies too much for sweeping claims to hold up easily, and conversational shorthand often assumes the listener will fill in nuance that was never actually stated. That creates ambiguity and makes the idea harder to evaluate. So when absolutist framing shows up frequently, I tend to approach the claim with caution. Not because the person must be wrong, but because the reasoning underneath the claim may not be as solid as it first sounds.
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