I feel like this question is a bit too general, you can make fun of people and their weaknesses as an attack, or as social bonding. So I want to say that it isn’t bad in general.
When me and my friends go around making fun of each other, so long as none of the jokes are particularly harsh (like, if they focus on peripheral issues) then I don’t feel like any status attacks took place, it seems like its just humor that happens to involve us.
This seems to suggest that attacks are a completely disjoint category from humor and/or social bonding.
I suppose this might be a purely semantic thing, in which case I have nothing useful to add… that is, if you’re just saying that if a friend does it we don’t call it an “attack,” even if that’s what we would call it from somebody outside the group, that’s fine.
But semantics aside, the same action can be both an attack and humorous and a form of social bonding.
Similarly, in some social circles fistfights are pretty common among friends. Such brawls are certainly attacks, but that doesn’t preclude them also being good fun. All a question of what you enjoy.
I feel like this question is a bit too general, you can make fun of people and their weaknesses as an attack, or as social bonding. So I want to say that it isn’t bad in general.
When me and my friends go around making fun of each other, so long as none of the jokes are particularly harsh (like, if they focus on peripheral issues) then I don’t feel like any status attacks took place, it seems like its just humor that happens to involve us.
This seems to suggest that attacks are a completely disjoint category from humor and/or social bonding.
I suppose this might be a purely semantic thing, in which case I have nothing useful to add… that is, if you’re just saying that if a friend does it we don’t call it an “attack,” even if that’s what we would call it from somebody outside the group, that’s fine.
But semantics aside, the same action can be both an attack and humorous and a form of social bonding.
Similarly, in some social circles fistfights are pretty common among friends. Such brawls are certainly attacks, but that doesn’t preclude them also being good fun. All a question of what you enjoy.