Totenkindly
@.~*virinaĉo*~.@
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If you are mean, you burn bridges, which limits possibilities?
This would bother INTJs, who see the big picture and plan a great deal (strategy).
This would bother INTPs, who avoid closure, and prefer to keep possibilities open?
Just an idea I'm throwing out there; I could be way off base.
No, I think that plays into it. (And INTx's all strategize, just in slightly different ways.)
Being mean throws additional random perturbances into the system -- you are adding uncontrollable factors into the mix (i.e., pissed-up people sometimes do unexpected things, or at least do SOMETHING... and you want to LESSEN the complexity, not increase it, if you want to predict and control/stabilize the environment).
Only if pissing someone off will lead to a fairly predictable reaction that plays right into your long-range strategy is it really worth doing.