maybe it's that i believe toxic words can pack just as much of a punch as a real punch, if not more so, i've known alphas to go above and beyond in making their contempt for a particular person known to the general public. think of where "belonging" ranks on maslow's hierarchy of needs, it's right there above the most basic of needs, so to deprive another person of that "belonging" via forced social isolation based solely on the grounds that you dislike them, to me, reaches new heights of inhumanity, but, even at their worst, it's usually just poking and light trash-talking. if there's one thing alpha has going for them, it's that you usually know where you stand with them. there might be a lot of poking and light trash-talking before they take you to the "executioner's block" but once they've released their pent-up frustration, it's usually buried quickly after, unless they've deemed you worthy of a spot on their blacklist, which is rare. betas are more inclined to "scapegoat" those on their blacklist and it usually results in a longer-lasting "grudge".
so you raise a fair point, it's small-fry compared to what beta/gamma are capable of doing. it's lighter in nature but it still makes me wildly uncomfortable.
i'm curious to hear your thoughts on xLE-ExI supervision/conflict relations. SLE and ILE are easy to distinguish from one another, but ESI and EII are harder to tell apart. how would ESI go about supervising SLE and how would EII go about supervising ILE? how would these two methods of supervision differ from conflict relations? "how can anyone trust them?" (ESI on SLE and EII on ILE) but wouldn't Fi-leads feel similarly about both Fi PoLRs?
my reasons for inquiring are somewhat selfish. i don't find SLE threatening because their methods are direct and brash, so it catches up to them eventually, and i know that they're trapped by the constraints of "reality" as it is. ILE go beyond "reality" and it usually manifests as indirect methods of wreaking havoc (i.e. triangulation techniques) so it rarely, if ever, catches up to them, which means that there's little incentive to change. no repentance.
(disclaimer: these are merely a few manifestations of Fi PoLR at its worst, ILE and SLE have a lot going for them in other areas of human interaction)
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Slugabed (and anyone else who is interested in sharing their input) feel free to weigh in, if the topic is of interest to you.