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This is not non-violent communication. If the subtext is “figure out what unstated thing I want you to do and then do it or I will fire you”, then that is quite
by jacobolus 8y ago
This is not non-violent communication. If the subtext is “figure out what unstated thing I want you to do and then do it or I will fire you”, then that is quite violent. Making both the demand and the threat explicit would probably be better.
- hitekker 8y agoI think you're overloading the word "violent". What you really mean is "coercive" which, interestingly enough, is the blindspot of the ideology extolled by the OP's article.
- jacobolus 8y agoI am not an expert in NVC, but my understanding is that avoiding unintentionally coercive language is one of the chief goals. I certainly wouldn’t claim that its title is rhetorically neutral. Picking apart the fine distinctions between violence and coercion is something I’m happy to leave to the philosophers.