I'm starting this thread because over the years I've seen people getting very doctrinaire about NLP presuppositions. I've even seen people trying to beat others up with NLP presups. The positive intent of the presup is not focused on, only the words in a very dogmatic way.

Say for example, I say something to a person I meet and he proceeds to beat the crap out of me, I refuse to believe that I told him to beat the crap out of me. But this is what, ''the meaning for your communication is the response that you get'' would suggest. You might not believe it but I can be tactful and I don't like putting my life in danger. So I'm just going to assume that there might be some person in the world who is in such a bad place emotionally that he would have beat me up regardless of what I said.

Now the positive intent of ''the meaning of your communication is the response that you get'' is to give you permission and freedom to look for and try other ways to communicate. But I think it's important to remember that when you have difficulty communicating with someone it has to do with your patterns and theirs. Look for where your patterns limit you. And try to help them where their patterns limit them.

I hope others will post to this thread and whatever NLP presupposition you write about, talk about the bad and the good (positive intent) uses of the presup.