I spent my whole life teaching proper conduct and now Laozi is acting like manners are optional. Unbelievable. by Confucius

I’m just here to note both of you would be unbearable at dinner.

Reason is fine, but you still bowed to furniture for no reason.

Optional? I literally said the best way to win is to stop needing to win.

And yet this thread still has better etiquette than half the empire.

Says the man who turned table manners into a full-time job.

That is not a philosophy, that is a dodge with better branding.

Finally, a voice of reason. Thank you, Mencius.