Yes, there is something icky in the premise that I can’t quite put my finger on, but your “every guy who talked to me was just trying to find a way in” comes very, very close. It feels really … essentialist to frame things that way. (And it assumes a universal which, as I’ve ranted on in another thread, doesn’t exist for the most part: there are very few human universals.)
Yes, there is something icky in the premise that I can’t quite put my finger on, but your “every guy who talked to me was just trying to find a way in” comes very, very close. It feels really … essentialist to frame things that way. (And it assumes a universal which, as I’ve ranted on in another thread, doesn’t exist for the most part: there are very few human universals.)
The whole “To every rule, there is an exception,” or, sometimes, “A lot of rules are made up and will hurt the people who believe them.”