Harassment is often understood to be, in its paradigm form, overtly aggressive or hostile. But harassment can also occur in a more deceptive format, and can be presented as soft, neutral, innocent, or even friendly and caring. There is something fundamentally deceptive and dishonest about this kind of harassment. The overt friendliness makes these particular forms of harassment harder to spot, and therefore potentially more likely to succeed. I focus on one such instance of friendly-presenting harassment: sealioning. I argue that, despite its ostensive friendliness, sealioning is a form of harassment that has a twofold goal: there is the political goal of forestalling action, and the epistemic goal of undermining the victim's authority. I draw on Jose Medina's understanding of culpable ignorance and the existentialist notion of bad faith to flesh out the distinction between ill-willed and good-willed sealioning, and argue that the latter, despite the good will, is also harassment. I conclude by addressing the different responsibilities of the sea lion, the victim, and the onlooker. Narrowing in on these deceptive forms of harassment, I aim to contribute to the hermeneutic justice of being able to spot and name harassment as it happens.

骚扰的典型形式通常被理解为公然的攻击性或敌对性。但骚扰也可能以更具欺骗性的形式发生，并且可以表现为温和、中立、无辜，甚至友好和关怀。这种骚扰从根本上来说是具有欺骗性和不诚实的。公开的友善使得这些特定形式的骚扰更难被发现，因此更有可能成功。我重点关注这样一种友好骚扰的例子：捕猎海豹。我认为，尽管捕猎海豹表面上是友好的，但它是一种骚扰形式，具有双重目标：政治目标是阻止行动，认知目标是削弱受害者的权威。我借鉴何塞·梅迪纳对有罪无知的理解和存在主义的恶意概念来充实恶意和善意海豹捕猎之间的区别，并认为后者尽管有善意，也是一种骚扰。最后，我阐述了海狮、受害者和旁观者的不同责任。缩小这些欺骗性骚扰形式的范围，我的目标是为能够在骚扰发生时发现并命名骚扰的解释学正义做出贡献。