The Watchtower, “Discipline That Can Yield Peaceable Fruit”
“The situation is different if the disfellowshipped or disassociated one is a relative living outside the immediate family circle and home. It might be possible to have almost no contact at all with the relative. Even if there were some family matters requiring contact, this certainly would be kept to a minimum”
Household relatives: 'normal family affections and dealings can continue' (par. 13). Reports the outcome of Paul v. Watchtower and concludes a shunned person 'cannot recover damages ... the person is feeling a loss brought on by his or her own actions' (par. 20). Footnote a: 2 John 11 'could well mean not to say even "hello" to such ones'.
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Provenance and verification note for The Watchtower, Discipline That Can Yield Peaceable Fruit
Confidence note. Raw WOL HTML fetched; wording and page markers 26-31 confirmed.
Corroborated by. src-court-us-1987-0610-paul-v-watchtower
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-w-1988-0415-discipline-peaceable-fruit