I didn’t know about Atheris claim to a death threat… that would favor Ben’s position in terms of mitigating factors if proved (link?).
I will further creep Smears out by further backing his further build of points.
A simple solution… both of you, TODAY, block each others accounts from being viewed by the other for a month, a sort of voluntary and mutual restraining order on you both, and let shit pass. No winners or losers. If you don’t, and both press this further, there will be only losers.
Secondly, Ben, Carleas isn’t required to do your legal work, you can submit your own paperwork, since you know so much.
Lastly, it is obvious why the two are fighting, as I will show in a second. I’ve adopted the Lovheim Cube on forums such as this, not because it is perfect, but is a very simple diagram that shows balance and imbalances between emotional states.
Ben is always starting from a basis of Shame and Humiliation, trying to build via Serotonin towards Contempt and Disgust… giving him a sense of superiority. He systematically hits anyone, lies, whatever… in an attempt to essentially one up them. From here, he builds towards Enjoyment/Joy in seeing the results, using the dopamine surge. Without this Serotonin surge, a Dopamine Surge results in just… fear.
Idiot is in a state of perpetual anger. He is built conceptually off of Noradrenaline and Dopamine… but lacks any hint of Serotonin. He says it outright… at base, Ben is literally Him… a sense of shame and humiliation. His personality built itself pretty radically to escape it, and Ben is taking, a emotively quite painful path.
Idiot is a left hemisphere mastermind of sorts (not too alien infact to Smears, as a sidenote). I know from other typological systems the react violently to social phenomena that doesn’t match up with the social conditions that lead to a integrated, peaceful society.
Ben is operating, in the early stages of his healing, in a essentially alien sphere in the right hemisphere Idiot can’t naturally see, but he does see such people operate in society, and can make the connections.
By looking at the progression of the Lovheim Cube, we can see they are both quite distant and incompatible personalities, unless both learn to integrate the missing neurotransmitter into their thinking. This is asking alot… takes a minimum of six months to get someone to naturally grow intellectually in such a manner. Rather, its simpler to note the incompatibility, and put restraints on their interactions… we can easily diagnose and map this pattern out. Moderators can apply it.
Its all Ontology. Very simple. This isn’t a cube capable of mapping everything, but I haven’t managed to disprove it either… that says alot. It gives an objective, more scientific basis to moderation. In cases of exactly opposite emotional states, there isn’t a right or wrong. You simply corral them out of it, using wisdom and prudence.
Knowing Ben’s nature, I can easily forgive him. I think Idiot can drop the grudge once he studies the situation and becomes the better man. If not, you both can just mutually block one another for a time.