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Years ago, I had a very local Hongkong Chinese boss. My holidays were constantly being challenged as "Hey, can you move that holiday?" By dumb luck, I was listening to him one day talk to his boss about an upcoming wedding. "It is so important. I cannot miss that wedding." After that, every single holiday of mine was a wedding or funeral. And I heard him several times "defend" my holiday plans: "Oh, he cannot move th…
That's a great example of how people tend to build complex ethical models in their minds to maintain the illusion that they are just and consistent with others.
This is great reply. Do you think this has been written about in "pop" or academic psychology or sociology? I would like to read more about this idea.