Rule of conflict: try never be the first to make a legible move at a new escalation level. Otherwise you’ll lose the “who started it” optics battle. Increasingly that’s most of the battle.
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What are "illegible salami provocation tactics?"
Accumulating small provocations that don’t fit a fixed pattern (so you can’t say “three strikes and you’re out”) none of which is individually severe enough to merit a response.
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Malicious “teasing” is a good example.
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Ah, sure. Children and pets have the additional advantage that the differential in capability and authority makes any escalation by an adult human seem inherently disproportionate.
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