Insults, Slander, Abuse

It's impossible to insult someone who doesn't agree to be insulted. An insult always needs assent of the one supposed to get hurt.

    Otherwise insults merely reveal the disoriented emotional state of the OFFENDER. They never are statements about the person towards whom the malice is directed.

    Example: We easily call someone 'stupid' whose views and actions we deem inferior to ours. Yet this only testifies that we are not intelligent enough to comprehend the other's views in his very own context and development. It further tells us that we permit harmful emotions to disturb our joy of life.


Changed attitude:

Agree to disagree

Others need to accept our views as little as wewant to accept theirs.

    To recognize diverging positions does not mean to adopt them, to think they are good, or to promote them. It only means to understand that someone else's history prompted him to come to different conclusions than we did.

    Insulting someone or feeling insulted because of a difference in opinion only demonstrates an inability to interact effectively with others.


    Assenting to an insult and to permit the respective bad feelings to mar our joy of life, is equally unintelligent.



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Author:  Hermann Kuhn
Book-Title:  'Unlimited Horizons'

ISBN:  978-3-9811466-9-1
Copyright 2008 Crosswind Publishing, Wunstorf, Germany


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