The British Disease,Co-Dependency

...which is also known, most tellingly, as psychic invasion.
The great secret, to which nobody wishes to confess, is that it is practised between people who are not actually in any way 'mutual'.
The pracititioner imposes his psychosis on another, normal person, with the intention of establishing co-dependency.

This is the observational wisdom behind such advice as "don't retaliate, it only encourages them".
That would be co-dependent, but what they have to understand is that escalatory retaliation a la 'Untouchables' is sometimes the only form of countermeasure that can break the cycle.

What the instigator is relying on is that you, the victim, don't want to create conditions under which you could be accused of criminality, such as physical assault.

These bastard-faggots keep it up as long and as much as they can, in the hope that you will gradually(or suddenly) graduate toward behaviour out of your normal routine, or worse, obscure your legitimate interests by devoting them to co-dependent behaviour.

The 'British' part of this disease is the license given to such people by culture, by presumption of law, and by outcome.

This frequent miscarriage of the justice system is what has led to the sentimentality surrounding the criminal who is just a 'bit of a lad', a loveable rogue, someone who has been driven to it.

Of course, this only goes to reinforce the sickeningly complacent 'fortunate/unfortunate' dichotomy of the British bourgeoise, the people who sniff and revel in their superiority that they are not driven to such things.

The truly horrible part is that this 'disease' is not at all some unconscious, automated cycle, but is something understood fully and practised with full consciousness, while all the while the dwarves of mental health blinker their eyes so as not to see the intelligence at work or the moral aspect.

This is the talent at work in British Society; few of them know how to make a living out of devouring the innocent and healthy and good.
They are for the most part amateurs, and as we know, amateurs are obsessives.

When you find you are being played by an expert, then, and only then, is it worthwhile speculating as to the existence of organisation as well as conscious principle.