General Question  ninjacolin's avatar  When is it right to
verbally hurt another person?  Asked by ninjacolin (13734 points
) October 25th, 2011  What kinds of moments do people tend to
feel it is okay to be verbally aggressive, cruel, teasing,
insulting and mean?  Can you ever truly justify a firey tongue
lashing towards another person?  Observing members: 0 Composing
members: 0  17 Answers  lillycoyote's avatar  Personally, I
never think it’s o.k. or right to be “aggressive, cruel,
teasing, insulting and mean” to hurt another person. Angry, yes,
justified anger yes. A little good natured teasing? Sure.
Assertive sometimes, yes, but what does one accomplish by cruel,
insulting and mean? I don’t get any pleasure from it, it serves
no purpose but to hurt someone else. But have I ever done, just
hurt someone with my words? Yes, I have on a few occasions, I’m
only human, but I apologized and never, ever would have
considered my behavior “right” or justified, just bad behavior
when I was caught in the heat of the