Are you able to peacefully disagree with someone?

@Zaxel yes. For me, in certain situations, if I see someone is mostly attacking and not open to hearing any different ideas, I tend to disengage. I’m just not sure how to continue the discussion without them getting angry and taking it out on me.

@YoungPoet345 if theyve already started being disrespectful, its hard to get them to stop. calling them out can make them aware but sometimes it triggers people more. either case, you need to stay focused on what the initial source of disagreement was and not let them pull away from that, since its a very common tactic to do that

@Zaxel I gotcha. I just saw with every time we tried to approach it, they’d ask a question about the main disagreement which may include insults, I’d respond, then they’d launch more insults and attacks. It was like they had an agenda of how they wanted it to go and how they were going to insult me. They didn’t seem to have any intention of holding a peaceful discussion. It would be a long windy discussion full of insults where they’d eventually maybe understand my perspective. And I just didn’t want to make all that effort while being attacked. Anything I said just made them more upset. I said I feel you’re being disrespectful and I don’t want to be insulted so I’d like to step away from the conversation. If we cannot have a peaceful discussion.

@YoungPoet345 thats the right way to go about it. also when you say that, sometimes they try to say more insulting/triggering things to get you emotionally riled up so you feel compelled to keep dealing with them in that emotional state. its almost like the argument itself is not whats important but a sort of emotional high that appears from being in that combative mode for some people