I’m recognizing a pattern in the personality type I’ve come to call The Archetype: disproportionate retaliation in response to discomfort.

There is a swift intolerance for anything or anyone that appears to interfere with their ideas, preferences, plans, comfort, or agenda.

Frustration, inconvenience, disagreement, or a perceived lack of deference is handled as a provocation to be consequenced.

They justify their retaliation as a natural consequence of being provoked, while simultaneously denying they had been affected or reacted at all.

In this dynamic, labeling someone a threat and treating them accordingly takes precedence over acknowledging feeling threatened and dealing with difficult feelings.

Something is causing discomfort? Annihilate it.