Suicide is coupled. The first set of mistakes we make with strangers — the default to truth and the illusion of transparency — has to do with our ina… - Malcolm Gladwell

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Suicide is coupled. The first set of mistakes we make with strangers — the default to truth and the illusion of transparency — has to do with our inability to make sense of the stranger as an individual. But on top of those errors we add another, which pushes our problem with strangers into crisis. We do not understand the importance of the context in which the stranger is operating.