Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

Well, no. 3 is true, certain individuals in my experience did attempt to incessantly escalate after the initial shock of getting hit back wore off. Maybe there's a way to circumvent that?

There is not.  The personality type that does this is too primal, instinctual and low awareness for there to be.  The only thing they understand is that either they are more powerful than you, or you are more powerful than them; and either you fear them, or they fear you.  The only thing you can do is literally to bring them within an inch of death, very very painfully, so they will come to fear you too much to try it again.  And then, they will constantly, incessantly, eternally test and test and test to see if you're still that strong and willing to do it again.

It's like trying to reason with an insect.  Not gonna happen.