That is what happens in Ruinous Empathy—you’re so fixated on not hurting a person’s feelings in the moment that you don’t tell them something they’d be better off knowing in the long run.
“The earliest human is termed Homo habilis, the name coined by Louis and Mary Leakey, who found a distinctive set of fossils from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in the 1950s and 60s.”
― The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
― The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way out of the Stone Age
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