MISSING: Chapter 7

MISSING
Chapter 7: Interlude

The main perspective in this story is based on the following assumptions:

1. People like you better when you meet their expectations
   
2. People like you better when you express agreement with them (even if you inwardly disagree).
   
3. People inherently like you better when you EXPRESS agreement with them, vs. if you agree with them but do not outwardly express your agreement.
   
4. People are attracted to likeness and familiarity. People feel more comfortable when they feel familiar.
   
5. People like you better when you affirm their self, including their opinions, statements, beliefs, fashions, styles, etc.
   
6. All people are egocentric. All people are rooted in the unique perspective of being their self.
   
7. There can be many truths. 
   
8. What can be true for one person may not be true for another person; this is due to the power of perspective.
   
9. The circumstance of one statement negating a second statement does not necessarily make either statement untrue.
   
10. All altruism is egocentric and rooted in the perspective that all people are equal and one person has a statistically equal chance of being any one person with any one fate. If all people are equal and have equal probability of finding any fate, then a fate that befalls on one individual could just as easily befall onto me, statistically. Therefore, I should help other individuals just as I would have them help me if I were the individual in need, in this situation.