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Rather, it encourages people to become good at simulating gratitude in a plausible manner.

It devalues the entire notion of gratitude to engage in that sort of petty manipulation. Gratitude is rendered into a base and superficial thing.




Now that you mention it, I think that maybe our team spirit was better when we had regular Quake matches... ;)




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