[adammarples]

Yeah we wouldn't, because we have empathy and understand other people. If you can't conceive that people can even like each other at all then all their behavior just looks like some complex status game to you. There's nothing irrational then, with your limited understanding, about coercing a behaviour that you want, any more than it would be irrational to force an exchange in chess because the Knight didn't "want to" move.

[badcppdev]

There's some irony here of trying to force another HN user to understand that rationality depends on your base understanding of how the world works.