   Abuse - Verbal: Why?
  Just a simple question, with (what I presume- although to be a wiseass, one must never assume anything) strangely vast scope of answers.Question: Why, as humans, do we use verbal abuse to exact disopinion (not a word in the dictionary, highly possible within the range of about 9-15 years though), engage, hurt and undermine each other?Hmmm... It baffles me as of right now. Wow, thinking about, it goes quite deep.NB: Serious post as always. Again, not posted to start this argument, that threat and the other etc...   
  In nature, violence is often used to discourage other creatures from going after/over you. It's an strategy that some creatures tend to recur more than others posibly because of their temper or just for a matter of that it seemed to be useful in the past.   ;  Thank you for you comment, owl. You have brought more thought to the intellectual table regarding this matter. Oh, I do love it when I go into deep thought. Who doesn't?Anyone else. Please enlighten me as to your feelings on the matter. It'll be interesting to see the different thoughts.   ;  As owl stated, in nature interspecies-fighting often seems to involve "warning" a opponent verbally or with mock battles before any actual fighting occurs. Growling, hissing, showing of your muscles and such.This behavior must be seen as favourable for the species as actual fighting might result in a population-decline if all-out fighting where to be the norm for all aggressive postures. In this way, fighting, injury and possible death can be avoided.   ;  Presumably because they don't have a "Rate this user" button.   ;  Human beings resort to verbal abuse because screw all of you dumb bastards.   ;  There's also different views on what's considered verbal abuse. I for example can't stand elitist attitude and I in a quite rude manner make it clear that I don't see maker of elitist remark as part of elite at all (which is naturally insulting). Got 10% warning for overdoing that today, meh.   ;  You're all ugly, stupid arseholes.  Fuck you.On a less facetious note, I think that verbal abuse is used as a cheap stab when all else fails.  It's kind of sad that you lack the resourcefulness to come up with a better solution i.e. one which will actually win the argument.   ;Quote:Original post by Dex JacksonWow, thinking about, it goes quite deep.Does it really?   ;  Because while verbal abuse might offend stabbing people in the face always offends.And gets you locked up.Jerk.   