The chief consideration when selecting a gift is that the gift reflect the giver. Only people who largely agree in matters of taste should exchange gifts. Every gift accepted incurs an obligation on the part of the recipient to reciprocate with a gift of equal value at a later date. Except in the most perfunctory gift-giving situations, people should consider the needs of the recipient when selecting a gift.
Hari: An awkward social situation develops when two people exchange gifts and the gift given by the first is obviously more valuable than that given by the second. Yet whenever two people exchange gifts of equal value, the gift givers soon realize that they would have done as well to keep their gifts, not give them away. Gift exchange, ttherefore, invariably results in either social awkwardness or else a useless transfer of commodities. Mili: But that is not true of my experience. For example, an old childhood friend and I recently exchanged presents that I am sure were vastly different in price. Yet since we gave one another gifts each of which expressed the giver' s taste, we both considered the exchange highly appropriate.
Mili's judgment concerning the appropriateness of her gift exchange is most in accordance with which one of the following principles?