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> Even calling it "non-violent communication" implies that more direct styles of communication are "violent", and veers towards manipulative exclusion of your peers.

The increasing use of the word "violence" to describe clearly non-violent things greatly disturbs me.

It could lead to people reacting more strongly to words than literal, physical violence. And I think that is a very very bad direction for society to go.



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