“What kind of person was too busy to text back a short reply?”
“Too busy” is simply the wrong way to think about it. If you are in a certain sort of low energy mood, replying may be extremely unlikely regardless of how much time you have. And it says nothing about whether you respect the person, at all.
For a similar reason, you may be quite unwilling to “explain what’s going on,” either.
And it says nothing about whether you respect the person, at all.
This is more important than you make it out to be. The very emphasis is that the reasons for the failure to respond are unknown. Whatever they are, you should steelman and respect those reasons in projecting validity for the behaviour, rather than presuming bad faith or really presuming anything at all.
“What kind of person was too busy to text back a short reply?”
“Too busy” is simply the wrong way to think about it. If you are in a certain sort of low energy mood, replying may be extremely unlikely regardless of how much time you have. And it says nothing about whether you respect the person, at all.
For a similar reason, you may be quite unwilling to “explain what’s going on,” either.
This is more important than you make it out to be. The very emphasis is that the reasons for the failure to respond are unknown. Whatever they are, you should steelman and respect those reasons in projecting validity for the behaviour, rather than presuming bad faith or really presuming anything at all.