Leo
Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.
Max Weber
The small resentment you have been carrying is not about what happened but about how little it seemed to matter to anyone else. You watched something that felt important to you get processed like paperwork, handled with the kind of efficiency that makes clear your reaction was never part of the equation. The resentment grows not from the original slight but from the realization that your response was seen as inconvenient data rather than information worth considering. What you are angry about is being treated like a problem to be managed rather than a person whose feelings might actually mean something.