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In argumentation, we sometimes talk about relative and absolute. For example: the rents are relatively high. Something can be relatively high but in its absolute number low. A fictitious example: the travel time by public transport to work is relatively high. This could mean, in absolute figures, that you spend 15 minutes a day on the tram for one way, but the tram stations are only 1 minute's walk away from your home and work. Compared to 1, 15 is a lot, but a total commute of 17 minutes is still absolutely little. So you have to be careful and look at both values: relative and absolute. It's the same with emotions: a single person can have a relatively large influence on my emotional stability, but in absolute terms it's not justified because I'm actually in contact with 50 people. So we can also control the sphere of influence here by regulating whether something gets disproportionate influence or not.

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