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> It's disrespectful in a way that I can't ever fully fathom, but why are they doing it? You need to have a dialogue with them to understand why they're doing the stupid shit they're doing. You need a dialogue to guide them towards becoming more considerate people, otherwise you're just hiding an element of society that will eventually come back to bite you.

You could write the same sentence about, say, physical abuse.




> You could write the same sentence about, say, physical abuse.

I'm not sure if we're in agreement here but yes, you could say the same about physical abuse. Perpetrators of violent acts are often found to have been recipients of violence or abuse themselves. We know this through counseling which is a form of dialogue. The more we can understand something, the better we'll become at preventing it from being exacted in the first place.

Understand and treat the cause, rather than ignore the cause and treat the symptoms.




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