Reflection 8: Give only two chances

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In our interactions with other individuals, it is guaranteed that an individual will commit a grievance against us; with a grievance in this context defined as a severe transgression which violates our sense of morality (such as lying).

The common advice or 'standard' is to provide others with three chances, which I vehemently deplore and which compels me to subsequently propose as an alternative that only two chances should be provided upon the basis that one grievance can be reasonably determined to be accidental, but a second grievance is categorically intentional and establishes the foundation for the grievance to transform into a pattern of behaviour. Thus, upon the commission of a second grievance, it would be appropriate to abandon the individual who has committed the grievance.

The only exception to the aforementioned is if the individual who has committed the grievance has undertaken reflection and subsequently altered their behaviour.

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