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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
What word am I ascribing a legal usage to? If you're really tied to colloquial usage, frankly, more or less the whole world uses the word "safety" in this context to refer to physical safety, not the prevention of emotional distress.
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This is the line that made me think you were looking at a legal definition.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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This is yet another stupid semantics debate that I'm surprised I let myself get roped into again but I doubt you could get a consensus on the definition of unsafe as it really relies on subjective interpretations of harm and danger. It could also very well be that the person in question misspoke and used "unsafe" when she meant "distressed" or something else. It's also probably the least important aspect of the story.