js wrote:
I apply more credits to Dag so we can have more details. note: people equipped with brains are polite, think about it.
I do not see how you could ever reach this conclusion. Politeness has nothing to do with intelligence (If we overlook the fact that ALL people/homo sapiens HAVE the brain :-D ).
It's more of the emotional response to irritating environment. I for one become more aggressive when extreme heat is applied to my body making me aggressive driver when I have no way of cooling myself.
I also get highly irritated when those less intelligent then my self (99%) start *insisting* (repeating it over and over) that I explain to them some things they are not capable of grasping. I have reasonable tolerance built-in in my brain/personality. I do freelance IT maintenance and I am also a local WISP so I am used to explain absolute basics OVER AND OVER AND OVER... without snapping at them, but my tolerance caves under extended time of applied pressure. I then snap on them, or someone else around in order to vent-out.
Also, there must be a lot of people, that talked with me over the phone, believing that I was rude just because I would end the conversation right after we finished conversing the stuff call was all about. I just can not process the need mediocre/most of people have to prolong the conversation after the reason for calling is fulfilled, just because the conversation was very short (for example, they ask me when I can come to check something, I answer them and then try to finish the conversation so I can continue what I was doing). This excludes if I consider them friends or the caller starts the conversation with "I wanted to hear/talk to you" or similar.
Politeness is mostly used to mask someones true intent in order to have you like them, thus improving their influence over you. Take a look at the worst scum on this planet, politicians, lawyers and hustlers and there is not need for further explanation. It's JUST a mask, you will never be as polite to esthetically ugly person as you are to gorgeous female or VIP unless you realize this and forceably correct you behavior.
I prefer that people are open and honest to me, and to tell me to stop irritate them, then for them to pretend.
And when I work I *HATE* to waist my time trying to explain what exactly I am doing, especially if I am helping someone without compensation. "How much longer Papa Smurf?" makes me want to just give up and do something more gratifying.
P.S. Sorry for the great off-topic
Ljubomir