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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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In my country we have a saying: You can't please both Greeks and Troyans. (Which, by the way, should be Athenians and Troyans to be Historically correct).
The point being that it's impossible to please everybody all the time, so either there is no point in even trying or if you really care that much about pleasing people you have to pick which ones you want to please.
Further, for me it helps that I put a lot of value in Honesty, so I have almost no tendency to be fake or bullshit to try and please people, and dislike it when others do it to try and please me (and nowadays I am pretty good at detecting fakery) - I would much rather have people give it to me straight than try to bullshit me to "please me" (they're not even doing it because of me: it's generally done either as conflict avoidance strategy or trying to get people's goodwill or sympathy to later extract some personal gains out of it)
Great points and we see the results with some of our politicians, around the globe.