Reciprocity works because from a young age people are taught to return favors and to disregard this teaching will lead to the social stigma of being an ingrate.
Seneca then considers the causes of lack of gratitude by those he perceives to be "thoughtless and reckless" (referred to as the "ingrate").
For this reason, he despises all humans, seeing them as ingrates who have forgotten the suffering of his son.
She was a wonderful speaker and a good administrator, but she must have been a born ingrate.
We showed him the way, then he is either thankful or ingrate.
Moreover, she was a spiteful and impudent ingrate who didn't seem to appreciate anything her daughter and son-in-law did for her.
He has never withdrawn his charges that those same people are ingrates who are holding patients to ransom and who do not care about their patients in any circumstances.
Our clumsy novices play their part in creating isolationists by talk which allows them to misrepresent us by calling us broken reeds and ingrates.
