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by throwaway173738 200 days ago
Conflict is actually healthy to have as long as it’s not violent and there’s space for other ways of relating to the same person.
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The most economically productive places in the world, I.e San Francisco and especially Seattle are famously passive aggressive and avoid conflict. It’s so well known in Seattle they have a name for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze

Maybe having conflict isn’t healthy, and letting people grumble about things under the breath is the right way forward, unironically.