Is because it implies, and I may have misunderstood you of course, that speakers and listeners share some equal "blame" so to speak.
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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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Let me clarify. I'm not affected by this conversation. I'm not a victim of bullying, not more than most ppl. (nothing that I couldn't handle), but I do know victims and know of their pain. His statement is simply unacceptable and I just don't trust his intentions/actions.
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