/lit/, what's it called when you really didn't want

Start with the Greeks.

>>9824893
slave morality

>>9824893
It's a lie by omission.

Have you been reading my diary?

>even though there is nothing you could have done to change this course of events?
Didn't you just say that
>then a legitimate reason for you not to go appears, so you decline with that as your excuse

If you don't have that excuse open anymore, and especially if you made some sort of promise to go do the first thing, then you have no reason not to and maybe even a moral obligation to do the first thing. If I'm understanding you correctly.

>>9825734

the problem is that while the event is still in the future from the time at which the excuse evaporates, the opportunity to attend the event has indeed passed already—the boat has already left, as it were