Enchiridion.

[notdogmatic]

For our lessons on demographics and classification, the social studies teachers and the youth counselor have informed me that my survey on deceased and missing loved ones which sorted fellow students into the Kubler-Ross stages of grieving was invasive and socially unacceptable.

If anyone was distressed by my questionnaire, or by the chart

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[downtorest]

You seem to have made a lot of people mad.

[notdogmatic]

It was not my intention.

[downtorest]

Even if it wasn't... You still did.

[notdogmatic]

Yes. I believe that is why I was required to apologize.

[downtorest]

Death is a sensitive subject. You should be careful.

[notdogmatic]

I was more interested in reactions to loss than to death itself, but that nuance appears to have been missed.

[downtorest]

They're not so simple to separate. The death of a loved one brings fresh suffering and loss, along with the reminder of our own mortality.

[notdogmatic]

I see.

So... by attempting to study this distress, I triggered memetic patterns that renewed this distress in my testing group?

[downtorest]

... Ah, but you might've hurt people, too.

[notdogmatic]

By asking questions?

Do you mean, as a Socratic gadfly?

[downtorest]

I'm not sure what that means, but reminder of how they lost a loved one causes suffering because of the former loss. You could have trigger that.

[notdogmatic]

Oh.

This is why an apology was required.

[downtorest]

Yes, please be careful.

[notdogmatic]

I will tender additional apologies when emotional distress seems evident.

This was unfortunate.

[downtorest]

It must be different where you come from.

[notdogmatic]

The humans I dealt with for the majority of my existence were only offended by theological statements or political criticisms that highlighted their limitations.

I believe both Ayanami and Ikari were different, but I had insufficient time to understand.

Still, Ikari did as I requested, so I must believe we were reconciled at our parting.