Ah hah, I see what you did. You changed it from “old people opinion” to “old people traits” because a trait would mean it’s exclusive to old people, whereas the original posts terminology calling it an “opinion” didn’t actually mean it was exclusive to old people. So the fact that all people share these opinions doesn’t matter because technically a universal opinion is also an old people opinion. But it was certainly IMPLIED that these opinions would be exclusive to old people, otherwise they would just be called “opinions” and leave out the “old people” phrase altogether. Which is why you changed it to “traits”, to call out the implication as being misleading. And that’s why… Wait, I forget where I was supposed to end this comment.
I’m sorry about this, everyone.
In regards to OP’s comment about ghosting, I just want to ask, are you a man? Because women all-too-often have to deal with men who can’t take no for an answer, and some of those men go from mad to violent very quickly. You might say “well, no man should act that way, they should be able to hear ‘I don’t want to see you anymore’ and just accept it and move on” but the fact is they are not all able to do that. So should women do the respectful thing and stop ghosting, even though some of them definitely WILL end up being yelled at/attacked/killed?
(I know my example doesn’t cover all situations involving ghosting, like for instance if the ghoster is a man. If you want to say ‘ghosting is unacceptable, except in cases where having a face-to-face conversation could put someone in danger’ then I don’t really have an argument against that. Except that it’s really hard to know which instance might actually be dangerous or not.)