Are offences the result of inadvertent actions and inactions or they are the product of ill nature and foul intentions? We expect people to live up to our anticipated benchmark in the way they relate with us. Any conduct or speech toward us which fall short of our expected standard, we consider it as having been executed out of ill nature or foul intentions. Hastily, we conclude that we are not being duly regarded by our offenders, and therefore we should react in such a way to reinstate our sense of significance and dignity. We do our best to convince our wrongdoers that we are worth more than they regard us. The hurt intensifies when these individuals who have rubbed us the wrong way fail to recognize the offensive nature of their actions and demonstrate no sense of guilt. The detrimental extent, where the verbalization our hurts is met with cold indifference or an uncompromising debate, transfigures the hurt into bitterness, and bitterness soon matures into hatred. Why do peo...