How to respond to insults: 5 options

I do not know about you, but I do not organically tolerate people who send out insults and rudeness to the left and right.

I do not know for sure what motivates them to act like this, genetic predisposition, lack of education or simply lack of brains.

Since such comrades are full, especially in places of large crowds of people( public transport, markets), then the banal advice "Do not pay attention" is ineffective.

Today I will tell you what to do with the boors, how to react to the insults of , which they are generously sharing with others, and how in other countries they treat unjustly offenses.

Where do these insults come from?


Actually, so that you understand, insult others - the position of weak people.

It is much easier for them to say some kind of muck, rather than try to reason with their point of view.

This is especially evident on the sample of the Internet community.

Here, for example, someone wrote some article.

Uncle Vasya did not like her.

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Instead of giving evidence of copyright infringement, he writes in the commentary to the text muck, generously flavored with mate.

How should the author himself respond to the insult of ?

To be offended, write something back, do not pay attention?

How to respond to an insult without harm to yourself?

In a particular case, it's better to choose the last option, because, who is Uncle Vasya, you do not know and you do not want to know, so why spend your time and emotions on it?

Most often, insults are resorted to:

  1. Weak people who are afraid of everything in the world and therefore have chosen the only weapon they understand.
  2. Energy vampires, whose purpose is to make you emotion and energize.
  3. Hams, who are not clear who brought up and who do not have to live among people.
  4. Aggressors who do not represent their lives without scandals, fights and self-inflicted thoughts that their insult on this will provoke you.
  5. Drunkards and addicts, because they do not control themselves.
  6. Idiots, whose brains are not capable of giving birth to a single clever idea, except mats.

How do civilized people react to insults?


In fact, the Constitution of many countries, including ours, has a separate article stating that you can not offend people. This is considered an administrative violation and must be punished with a fine.

However, in fact, if you approach a policeman and say that that bad drunken uncle has thrown a bucket of insults and threats on your head, at best the guard of order will send his uncle to sleep, at worst he will send you far away.

But not all states adhere to this policy.

Once my acquaintance with her husband rested in the Arab Emirates.

They have any insult, even ugly gestures are strictly prohibited.

"If you are insulted, never answer them in return. After all, if a dog is barking at you, you do not get on all fours and you do not bark at her. »
Mikhail Zadornov

They went somehow on an excursion, and with them on the bus was an extremely restless tourist( I will not say from what country🙂).

He got everyone else on the road, but an unpleasant incident happened while visiting some sight.

An uneasy tourist either pushed the travelers from Japan, or he just decided to get to them, but insults fell on their heads.

The Japanese did not come into conflict, but simply complained to the policeman that he was nearby.

The perpetrator of the conflict was taken to the station and discharged a fine, which devastated his pockets considerably.

The practice of "let them sort out the cads of the law-enforcer" is popular in many countries, but unfortunately we have not joined them yet, therefore we must learn how to respond to insults of correctly.

How is it better to respond to insults?


The most common responses to an insult are:

  1. Ignoring.
  2. Dialogue that will drive the interlocutor to a standstill.
  3. Tears that can pity him.
  4. Humor.
  5. Physical Exposure.

Let's figure out which of the options is appropriate in different situations.

  1. The reaction to rudeness depends largely on the person who is experiencing your patience.

    If it is a question of a dirty man with a beer belly, which his life dissatisfaction splashes out on all passengers of the minibus, the best thing to do is not to pay attention to it.

    You see it for the first time, and it's definitely not worth it to make you nervous because of a worthless boar.

    Ignore should answer the insults of energy vampires - they should not eat your emotions.

  2. If a boor is your acquaintance who constantly practices such dialogue, you can corner him with clarifying questions and phrases: "Why do you think so?", "Argument your opinion," "Prove to me that you are right"," Where did you get this from? "," What else does not suit you in me? ", Etc.

    It is possible that your dialogue will end with reconciliation and awareness of your mistakes.

    Or - it will disappear forever from your life, which is also very good.

  3. My friend knows exactly how to react to insults of of passportists, female workers and other useless employees in state offices.

    She starts to cry.

    It turns out it is very natural, the malicious aunts begin to see a weak defenseless girl before them and rush to help her with the solution of the problem.

  4. Humor is generally a powerful weapon against any life's hardships, and even against the boorish ones - it is truly deadly.

    Those who like to insult, often hide behind the mask of brutal, afraid to seem ridiculous or weak.

    Your task with jokes is to ridicule the boor, so that he disgraced himself from the battlefield and later was afraid to pester you.

  5. Cuffs for a boor - this, of course, is an extreme option, but when nothing else works, then it is quite possible to resort to their help.

    Once at me the sports man pushed out of a trolley bus insulting all and all around tipsy type.

    Neither persuasions, nor requests, nor shouts could not make him shut up, until this man intervened.

    His actions were applauded by all passengers of the trolleybus.

And a few more examples of how to properly react

to the banal insult "You're a fool!"

Look, remember 😉

If none of the suggested options suits you, try to find yours.

But the only thing I know for sure: respond to insults , spending your nerve cells, you can not in any case.

This you do not prove anything to anyone, just put a blow to your health and please the boor - he achieved what he wanted.

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