Maybe I should… hold people to their own standards, sometimes...?
Noooo! Terrible idea. No matter what standards people claim to have, they don’t owe you anything. It’s a free world. As long as no laws are broken, every human interaction is a freely chosen trade. Your loss from trading with Bob is on you. Make a different trade next time, or choose someone else to trade with.
(That also helps against your general brand of cynicism. Complaining about your trade partners is clearly absurd. Trade, or don’t.)
“Complaining about your trade partners” at the level of making trade decisions is clearly absurd (a type error). “Complaining about your trade partners” at the level of calling them out, suggesting in an annoyed voice they behave differently, looking miffed, and otherwise attempting to impose costs on them (as object level actions inside of an ongoing trade/interaction which you both are agreeing to) is not. These are sometimes the mechanism via which things of value are traded or negotiations are made, and may be preferred by both parties to ceasing the interaction.
Noooo! Terrible idea. No matter what standards people claim to have, they don’t owe you anything. It’s a free world. As long as no laws are broken, every human interaction is a freely chosen trade. Your loss from trading with Bob is on you. Make a different trade next time, or choose someone else to trade with.
(That also helps against your general brand of cynicism. Complaining about your trade partners is clearly absurd. Trade, or don’t.)
“Complaining about your trade partners” at the level of making trade decisions is clearly absurd (a type error). “Complaining about your trade partners” at the level of calling them out, suggesting in an annoyed voice they behave differently, looking miffed, and otherwise attempting to impose costs on them (as object level actions inside of an ongoing trade/interaction which you both are agreeing to) is not. These are sometimes the mechanism via which things of value are traded or negotiations are made, and may be preferred by both parties to ceasing the interaction.