I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.

Plans to exact retribution are never going to make us safer.

NVC requires us to be continually conscious of the beauty within ourselves and other people.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.