The reason I dislike this: "Which proves it is ultimately about what the speaker means by the words and what the hearer means by the words, not with some objective fact about any particular word."
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I also notice many abusive relationships and pretty much Stockholm syndrome in certain groups, so? Being friends with abusers is a way to survive when no other options are possible.
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I don't mean that you stay friends with them if they keep abusing you. Just that a person's positive response to soft abuse can sometimes end the abuse and lead to a positive relationship.
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I dunno about you but I'm a Dr in Psychology and I think that's not a good idea.
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This is the type of behavior on which I'm really focused: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201301/the-educative-value-teasing-0 … but there are many variations. May be a distant cousin to what you call bullying.
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I know a bit about Peter Gray’s ideas about education (which I find valuable in countering some unneccasary preconceptions that education needs to involve schooling), though I do not know this piece.>>
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That said, I think it’s confusing & unhelpful (for communication) to use words like teasing, bullying, and abuse interchangeably. Someone already has jumped this discussion. I propose to leave this point of trying to arguing abuse/bullying and benefits of positive responses, as>>
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It may be triggering for people having experienced actual bullying and abuse (to equate them with teasing), and the argument seems to not be about either of them anyway (but about teasing).
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amen
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That's true. I could have been seriously hurt had the can fell. On the other hand, I think the bully became a better person because of how I reacted. Obviously if it were a recurrent pattern I would have needed to go to authorities.
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