Getting hurt

I really appreciated Shannon’s honesty here:

It's interesting because there are

factions of people

within these groups

that I don't think it's possible to

be in a group of people without

hurting each other at some point,

finding people you do like more than others.

I would agree. I think it’s hard to have a group of more than a few people (maybe a group of more than two people) without subgroups forming. The fact that people get hurt, seems to me to tie back into the agonistic nature of communication. When one person is doing something to another person, sometimes the other person is going to get hurt. Agonism implies pain. I don’t think the struggle has to be painful, but it can be.