Alternative wrote:
Ignorance usually works for me.
Although I'm so used to being bullied I put on them the "shoot me again" concept where I also use reverse psychology, and say "go ahead, you'll be doing me a favour" etc.
It tends to work 9 times out of 10.
That's like the rule in the Bible "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but if someone slaps you on the right cheek offer them the left as well". Although I'm not religious I do think that the bible has some very good moral rules to help save people from their otherwise animal natures.
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If the phrase "you are what you eat" is correct, technically we must all be cannibals.