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Standard
In normal, day to day, operations we can always accidentally do things that tick other people off. Most conflicts in the world are unintentional and with people you can never know what specific triggers there are for specific people. By default we do not know what people are like, so even though we have social norms and cultures, specific people may (dis)like things that others would not. This means that other people depend on you to tell them when you do things they would rather not. Naturally, this does not cover everything - some things that are obviously problematic for people (like getting hurt, physically and emotionally) because they are universal and apply to everyone, but for everything else I use this system:
Emergencies
To mitigate the risk of conflict and escalation during a conversation, my best friend and I developed a flag system with the goal of enabling quick emotions communication and enabling swift and mutually understood action to prevent escalation.
