Dear Smiley:

“only passively hurting” you is… hurting you (the word hurting is there still, the verb!)

“intentional or semi-intentional or totally unintentional” hurting someone is… hurting someone. Same thing.

I will go for the extreme to make my point: of all the murderers in prison, many passively murdered someone (poisoning can be considered a … passive act of murder) and many didn’t intend to kill… maybe just for a split second.

Yet the dead person, the victim is … dead nonetheless.

Hope you feel at peace with blocking him.

anita