If one 5-year-old calls another "stupid", the other child might respond by a bigger insult, hitting the first child, not talking for a few days, and things may easily keep going wrong just because of one or two unfair comments.
Assuming you've reached a certain age and maturity level, if your neighbor says one or two unfair comments, you may ignore him, you may say something to shut his mouth, you may tell someone to negotiate if they insist, but you'll (hopefully) try not to bring matters to a climax.
When your actions represent more people than just yourself, for example if you are a school director, a company president, a reporter in a magazine, or some other institution, you have to be even more careful on that. Keep spirits low. DNFTT.
The cat has a reason or two to be showing its claws right now. Take this as a generic comment if you wish, or ask me to answer in PM if you're interested.
Take care.
Monday, March 1, 2010
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