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LarabysLair -> RE: is "wifeydommebait" ethical ??? (2/3/2009 11:57:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Laraby, I'm interested in why you think miscommunication is always deliberate. Because around here it is never deliberate and has always been the basis of the few problems we've had over the past six years. He says something believing I understand it the way he meant it, and I understand it to mean something else. Or I say something and he misunderstands it.
This isn't an example of being unethical but of being different human beings who cannot read each other's minds.
Hey Des
I refer to deliberate miscommunication, not mistaken communication or failure to communicate. What I mean by miscommunication is, for example, the way someone will reply to a question by answering a different question than the one which was asked, in a deliberate way to avoid actual transfer of understanding, or by changing the subject, or by avoiding the question entirely, or by faking obtuseness. These and other forms of miscommunication are indeed often deliberate and, as I said, unethical to me.
Call me LL
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