Re: Why Are Courting Signals Ambiguous?

[david friedman]

Variants of your option 1: People want to be able to find out if the 
other party is interested without committing themselves, for two 
reasons:

a. The status of "rejected suitor" is different from, and to some 
degree incompatible with, the status of friend--and they want to 
preserve the latter option as long as possible.

b. Rejection hurts.
-- 
David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
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