Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoGreat
Use a different name as this has nothing to do with violence and it is unhelpful. Violence is physical and as soon as you make any inconvenience in communication “violence” then you just get lost in pedantic semantics.
The creator of Nonviolent Communication didn’t like the name either. He said he used it because it connected him with people around the world to share his ideas.
Do all demands have an assumption of violence attached? (do this or I will force something to happen) I am failing to think of ways that demands don’t have implied physical violence if they are genuine.
The creator of Nonviolent Communication didn’t like the name either.
So they fucked up. Hey, words are hard. I get it.
You realize that by asking to use your specific definition of a word, you’re the one getting lost in pedantic semantics, right?
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
So coercion and other completely verbal applications of power are violence.
It’s not really semantics, it’s just the whole definition is more encompassing than the most basic/ ubiquitous case of the thing.