If I have beef with someone, I could punch them and go to jail.

But I can also bully them, humiliate them, degrade them, psychologically annihilate them even, and that’s fine, legallly. Why?

  • itsathursday@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    If it’s in the workplace you should actually have more agency to do something through HR, but this depends on where you work…

    • curiousaur@reddthat.comOP
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      4 days ago

      To clarify: I don’t have an issue. I have a coworker I’d like to punch. The alternative strategies I’m taking because I can’t punch him are leaving me feeling dirty.

      • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
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        4 days ago

        You are right for feeling dirty, maybe reconsider everything about the situation and work on why would you even let hatred be part of your work environment.

      • BeN9o@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        So you can’t physically abuse your coworker but you can mentally and you want to know if you’re going to get into trouble for doing so?

          • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
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            4 days ago

            Because society is so terrified of the technologies we have created that it has adopted the ideal that everything needs to be perfect right here and now, and so any deviation from acting out that Utopian fantasy is met harshly, even though it’s obviously not true to any rational person.