Because I think about the consequences of someone else saying yes.
As that thinking goes, a healthful eater should not have to pay for the consequences of someone else's greasy burger binges.
As Hofstadter writes, "The paranoid's interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone's will".
The consequence of feuding with someone who is impervious to disapproval is that the grudge is unreciprocated, quickly depriving the silent treatment of its oxygen.
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas has won the £10,000 Commonwealth writers' prize for his edgily controversial novel about the consequences of hitting someone else's child.
But research finds that the consequences of catching someone in a prosocial lie are often very different from those of an antisocial lie, or "black lie," as they're sometimes called.
Even before significant questions of integrity arose, as early as 2000, many of us feared the consequences of putting someone in the presidency with so little experience and with few apparent skills.
But among some doctors and social critics the idea of buying loved ones new and improved body parts raises moral and psychological questions about the consequences of amending someone else's appearance, especially if the gift was not requested.
I've found that this is a double edged sword, as I've felt the consequences of living someone else's dream before finding the inspiration and strength to pursue my own.
In my last post about the consequences of labeling someone toxic, I shared how sickening it feels to actually see 409,000,000 results in response to a Google search of two words that I regret ever end up in the same search: avoid and friend.
