Acharya Prashant responds to a question about dealing with toxic people by first questioning how the questioner managed to accommodate so many toxic people in her daily life, stating that "like attracts like." He asks how it is that so many toxic people have gravitated towards her. When the questioner clarifies that it is only one or two people whom she cannot avoid as they are family members, Acharya Prashant explains that the belief that one "cannot avoid them" is the very definition of toxicity. He points out that just as she says she cannot avoid them, the toxic people say they cannot avoid being toxic, which is everyone's apology and explanation. Acharya Prashant challenges the notion that family is bigger than everything else. He asserts that a person is not born to be a "family woman" but to be liberated. Liberation, he explains, is bigger than all identities, roles, and relationships, which are all subservient to one's existential purpose. He reminds the questioner that one is born alone and will die alone, questioning the supreme importance given to family. The only thing that will remain is the height of consciousness one could reach. He states that the compulsion to accommodate toxic people is what fuels the toxicity; if toxicity knew it would be thrown out, it would change its ways. By accommodating it, neither person benefits; the other person remains toxic, and the questioner continues to suffer and feel like a victim. The fundamental problem, according to Acharya Prashant, is an ignorance of one's true nature, which leads to taking on needless roles, responsibilities, and identities. He explains that toxicity is not inherent in a person but breeds in an environment, and many people are responsible for it. One can support toxicity actively by being toxic or passively by tolerating it. He advises the questioner to stop being one of those responsible for toxicity. He suggests calling a spade a spade, not with anger or vindictiveness, but as an exercise in factfulness. If the other person is their own well-wisher, they will listen. If they do not, one cannot force them, but one's own well-being is definitely in one's own hands.