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I found this article very insightful.

However, let me make one important addition. The author says that the person who is not a jerk is a sweetheart. However, following Aristotle's theory of the golden mean, let me point out there is also a third type, namely someone who discounts their own perspective and always thinks the other person is right, and so goes around feeling guilty and inferior.



That seems to be a type of negatively expressed sweetheart, in these terms.

There is a magical center of action, greatly to be desired, where one neither runs over others nor lies down to be overrun.




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