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Old 01-25-2018, 12:59 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
Again, harassment and bullying can - without more - lead to emotional distress of various types. Those are not, however, matters of personal safety, despite being bad. If I make fun of you in front of your peers to the extent you feel serious emotional distress, I might be an a-hole, and certainly I might even deserve to get fired if we work in the same place, but you don't get to call the police unless you have a reasonable fear that I'm going to physically assault you in some way. That's the "more" that takes us over the line into a safety issue.
You have a really weird habit of conflating legal definitions of words with their colloquial usage. Most of the world doesn't operate like that and expecting it to is more than a little unreasonable.
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