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Date: 2010-04-01 09:50 pm (UTC)
meloukhia: Red stockinged legs in black heels, standing next to a watering can with a red flower. (bearded iris)
From: [personal profile] meloukhia
I love this. I think there's a lot to examine in the way we deal, socially, with helping/being helped/asking for help/declining help.

Something else I think about sometimes is the other side of the interaction; the correct response when someone politely rejects help. People get *very* uppity when you say 'no, thank you, I don't need assistance' or something along those lines, almost as though it's a personal insult. Perhaps they resent refusal to be 'an occasion for others good works,' as you so excellently put it.
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