Tuck, stay with me man. For legal purposes aggression is the use of force against another, this is what sets up the grounds for a self-defense counterargument to the prosecution, the aggressor has no merit to use this defense in court.
I'm with you, but the problem is that you are making a claim that remains unsupported.
where is this legal definition you speak of without citing?
Sociologists define aggression as behaviors that are forceful, violent, or attacking as do criminologists,
To a degree this is true. What they don't define aggression by is the intent of the person committing the act of aggression.
Where your definition above is demonstrably false, however, is that sociologists do not
deny the existence of
passive aggression, which they would
have to if they limited themselves to the definition you have described above.
Thus, since we know for a fact that at least
some of the claims you are making are false, and none of them are supported by evidence, we must assume that they are all potentially false claims until supporting evidence is provided.
without the intent to cause harm or any further actions you cannot call the simple act of following aggressive.
this is your premise, but it's not, as of yet, supported by evidence or logic. I don't accept such claims on a "because I said so" basis.
You used further the "aggressive salesman" example, this is actually properly defined as an assertive salesman BUT the words have been interchanged over the years.
Actually, an assertive salesman would not be the same thing as an aggressive salesman at all. They are different words and they are used to signify two different things. An assertive salesman would be quite pleasant to work with, while an aggressive one would be annoying.
Ultimately, I'm asking you to just support your claims in some way. Repeating them is not supporting them. Making new claims which are false is not supporting them.
And as to the assertive definition I am using to point out that it an assertive salesman is different than an aggressive salesman:
Assertive - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
: disposed to or characterized by bold or confident statements and behavior
That's very different from the way that aggressive salesman is used, because that means pushy won't take no for an answer.
I'm being assertive in this post. I'm not being aggressive though.