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Why do people expect you to say thank you when they compliment you?

Did the person beg you to compliment them? I'm thinking no
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Its courtesy, manners. Like when someone says 'hey, how are you? ' you always say 'fine, how are you? ' if we didn't have these constructs we would be bashing eachother over the head with clubs, helps prevent miscommunication "manners", the civilized world... Humans need this because we can be quite nasty by nature and that is not productive