Saturday, January 31, 2015

If some one tells you you're hot but they don't know you, what do you do?For example, if you have a disability and you really like this person, do...

First and foremost, when someone pays a person a
compliment, the correct thing to do is to accept it graciously. Never call the person
who has paid the compliment's taste into question by denying their claim. In other
words, do not say, "No, I'm not," or something like that. Just say, "yYou are very
kind/sweet/considerate/etc. to say so." This way, you neither acknowledge that the
statement is true nor do you call the person a liar, you just confirm that the person
was kind by making the statement.


As far as the
requirements for full disclosure go, it varies from person to person. In my humble
opinion, honesty is the best policy. That being said, however, there is a time and a
place and some truths may never actually need to come out at
all.


There are some basic truths, the withholding of which
will be considered the same as lying. For example, if you are a man and the person you
are chatting with obviously thinks you are a woman; if you are a woman and the person
thinks you are a man; if there is a significant difference in your ages, and the place
online where you contacted the person first is age specific. (e.g., if a middle-aged man
contacts a girl in a teen chat room and doesn't reveal his true age, it would be
wrong.)


As far as physical characteristics go, it gets a
lot muddier. Again, if you contacted the other person in a specific type of room that
your physical characteristics don't fit, then that person could think you lied to them
with some justification.


However, if you met in a general
place where the other person has no expectation of any specific truth, and that person
furthermore does not ask you about whatever disability you are worried they won't
accept, then you are not under any moral obligation to reveal
it.


Until, of course, you sense that the relationship may
be getting serious. I would say, though, that "You're hot" does not constitute a
relationship moving into a serious state. Wait until the talk moves to marriage or at
least meeting for the first time to worry about revelations.

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