Assumption of intent in statements

• proposal with intention assumption

• Some people make the unspoken assumption that statements made by others must be made with some kind of intention.

• Such people read non-existent intentions such as “I am trying to get the person who created this situation to change his/her behavior” from the mere information sharing “I think this situation is not good.

• There are those who believe that “everything should be open to the public except what we don’t want to be seen.”

• When such people observe the world and think, “I see, this is the structure of the world,” they tend to write their “interpretation of the world” immediately.

• That’s not to say that I expect anyone to change their behavior.

relevance - Factual and action-oriented - Differences in communication between generations

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