They’re disempowering themselves. Describe themselves as a victim of circumstance, powerless and without responsibility. It’s a disempowering narrative. You’re shooting yourself in the foot. In this story that we live, you are casting yourself as an npc.
On the flip side, saying “I can’t” adds authority to your argument. You’re citing an unstoppable force as the root cause of your actions. So it’s a tradeoff that way.
Yes, there’s a difference. Is this not an obvious concept?
Yet it is an obvious concept. That’s why people here are confused by the post
I believe most of the comments are joking.
the point is very clear, its not that “cant” and “wont” fill the same purpose, that is clarified in the post.
the point is that people say they cant when they mean they wont, because if they can’t, that implies its beyond them and thus they cannot be forced into doing it, such as not knowing how to build a rocket.