People who oppose it say these laws will force people to be polite at work.

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You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.

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"People like what they know, " said Ms. Wilson, adding that she'd have to be polite if asked what she thought about other people's homes.

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Eighty-eight percent of respondents in our study reported that people are less polite on social media than they would be in a face-to-face interaction.

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