What can you do about enemies?

Answer 1

There are many varieties of enemies and there are many things that you can do about them. If a person is your enemy because of some problem that is possible to fix or resolve, it would be a good idea to fix or resolve the problem, because the best possible outcome is to change enemies into friends. However, that is not always possible. Some people have a deep, or even irrational hostility which cannot be remedied by any means at your disposal, therefore they can never become friends. In such cases, it is often a good idea to simply avoid that person. However, those types of enemies are not always avoidable, since they may be present in your own home, or school, or place of work etc., where you are obligated to be. It is sometimes possible to maintain polite social interactions even with your enemies, since they are bound by the same social conventions as anyone else, and if they are nasty toward you, people will notice and it will affect their own social standing. But then, there are people who care little for social conventions and who will seek to cause problems for you even when you are polite toward them. Those are the most difficult situations. However, if you can demonstrate that these people are bullying, or harassing, or threatening, or attacking you in some way, then corrective action can be taken. The specific corrective action depends upon the circumstances. But people can be thrown out of school, fired from jobs, or depending upon the severity of the offense, arrested. Society does not consent to private vendettas which disrupt the lives of innocent people (which I am presuming you to be; if you are not an innocent person, then of course it is your enemies, and not yourself, who need to take corrective action).