Oftentimes we would like to erect a situation and criticize either publicly or directly and in private. However, the best way to approach correction and rebuke is to generalize the flaw or evil observed and to write and speak concerning it as an issue for all to see and address rather than maintaining a position in an isolated situation. When we do this, it means we are not targeting a person, but a flaw and an evil, thereby accomplishing our goal of ending its continuation and effects while maintaining one’s dignity, safety, compassion, and appropriateness.
For example, you know someone who is using mental health to take away your freedoms. Rather than making this an issue between you and the individual, we ought to bring the topic of abusive weaponization of mental health into the light of the public eye and those we are near to and with whom we are well acquainted. Writing and speaking about how mental health ought not to be used abusively to take away freedoms, we can share our perspective in generalities that this is wrong and that what we ought to do is support each other in compassion, in calm, and in fearless support of freedoms.