stevestory
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Kairosfocus June 16, 2019 at 3:47 am
EG, BB ET:
We do not need a side stream of personalities.
I do note — as a caution — that someone here does not understand bullying and linked sociopathic patterns — there are people who lack empathy and conscience to restrain themselves from dangerous and even life-threatening abuse. You cannot ignore violence, reckless behaviour, abuse of authority and serious threats, especially when a pattern shows up. That holds in the schoolyard, on the job, or in a family. Trying to pretend that nothing is happening or minimising what is happening to a victim is a recipe for disaster, we call it enabling. Simple teasing, perhaps can be ignored for the moment until relevant authority has evidence to step in correctively. But even that can be a warning of dangerous abuse, from words, deeds spring and words themselves can do grave harm. That’s why there are torts recognised in law about verbal abuse and attacks against innocent reputation.
This problem is also precisely why so many inveterate objectors to design thought so often play out the trifecta fallacy of red herrings led out to strawmen caricatures soaked in ad hominems and set alight with incendiary rhetoric — snide or blatant — in order to poison, cloud, confuse and polarise the atmosphere for discussion.
When we see objectors persistently using distractions and denigration, that is a sign they do not have a cogent, substantial answer.
Above, I have stepped in correctively.
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