It is an extremely complicated topic, if admittedly more simple-seeming when you put it that way. Multiple branches of human knowledge have been dedicated to trying to answer that question.
[Dirk, of course, tried to study them, and in some ways he was good at it—the abstract, the theoretical—but in others he always finds himself falling short. How people are people is hard.]
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[Dirk, of course, tried to study them, and in some ways he was good at it—the abstract, the theoretical—but in others he always finds himself falling short. How people are people is hard.]