Bullying V2

[SpessCaptain]

Keep shitposting to a minimum, guys - please get back on topic.

 

[BiggerJ]

I think that it's important to reinforce appropriate social behaviors. Not getting your ass kicked for being a sperg is what leads to shit like colleges establishing safe spaces. It's a growing experience.

Things have always worked that way in real life. But on the internet, the anonymity it grants means that it's easiler for someone to take it further and, for example, transition from not tolerating an autistic person's shit and manipulating him into shoving something up his ass to save someone who doesn't exist.

 

[Pinkamena Diane Pie]

I think bullying has its place, but things should still be monitored. It can teach character, but it can be deadly because, let's face it, kids don't know the meaning of stop and sometimes, crossing the line doesn't exist for people.

Though, we should have laws on the books for when it does get too far. You could only push a person so much. However, adults can also cause harm, so monitoring would be difficult...

It doesn't matter how much yelling you do whether kind or rude. It won't help them much. Especially won't work if they already know they have issues. They only will fix them if they want to.

Bullying, again, is helpful. Very helpful, until it gets out of hand. (Stalking levels, harassing to the point of no privacy, etc)One example would have to be the Megan Meier case. Adult bullying a child they knew was bipolar. That needs to.be monitored.

 

[AnOminous]

Bullying, again, is helpful. Very helpful, until it gets out of hand. (Stalking levels, harassing to the point of no privacy, etc)One example would have to be the Megan Meier case. Adult bullying a child they knew was bipolar. That needs to.be monitored.

There's a case where there "oughtta be a law." But not murder or whatever people want.

And it was completely ham-handed going after her on some bullshit cobbled out of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act trying to make it a felony to use bunk information when signing up to a social networking site.

 

[Jace E. Denton]

Bullying only happens to easy targets, the second you stand up for yourself, you draw a big line in the sand that lets people know you will do it again in the future, bullying stops pretty quickly if a bully knows that everytime he messes with you, you are going to throw punches back at him. Whether you win or lose, the vast majority of bullies actually do not want equal conflict, they want a punching bag that never fights back.

I don't think anyone ever fucked with me again after my freshman year of high school when I got in a few fights with douchebags, it almost instantly made me a lot of friends with older students who respected someone who didn't take shit. That's really all there is to it, if you don't stand up for yourself, nobody else ever will, so you need to learn that lesson really early in life. Of course, I don't bring this up to power level or sound tough, this is just my experience with bullying, you either stop it before it gets out of hand or else you really will become a perpetual victim your entire life. It's like dealing terrorism, there is a reason so many countries have a foreign policy of not negotiating with terrorists, it only enables more of the same.

I do understand the specific situations of a total runt being bullied by much bigger people, those are the cases where I'd wish other students had enough balls to stand up for a kid like that. The problem is really when you get adults or even law enforcement involved to stop that, you're putting in the mind of that victim that he is always going to have higher powers to bail him out of problem situations, but that just isn't life, there is going to be that time when you have absolutely no choice but to either stand up for yourself or have good friends to watch your back, you will not always have cops around to come swooping in for the rescue.

I am glad I was once bullied as a young teenager, it triggered me to fight back and I learned just how easy it actually is to stop bullies, the one thing they don't want and often don't count on is someone standing up to their bullshit without any fear. That is pretty much their kryptonite.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

I like to call it: Darwinian Evolution In Practice.

That's not even how Darwinian Evolution and natural selection works.

http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com

http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_2.htm

 

[Pinkamena Diane Pie]

There's a case where there "oughtta be a law." But not murder or whatever people want.

And it was completely ham-handed going after her on some bullshit cobbled out of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act trying to make it a felony to use bunk information when signing up to a social networking site.

In this case, it should be considered a bit more than that, considering what the woman did. It's not like she didn't know these people or this girl. It's not like she didn't know the condition she had (which causes higher suicide rates, worse depressions, etc ) it's the actually of knowing all this information at still feigning innocence in the situation. She knew the buttons to press; the only reason she did it was for her own stupid reason.

I think she should be charged with assisting someone's death considering how close they were and what she decided to do after the fact. Though, only in this situation, considering the fact this was an adult purposely going after a rumor. (Adults should know better than that)

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

There's a difference between bullying and life lessons. Conflict is fine, growing up you'll soon learn that not everyone is going to be your friend. Bullying is psychological torture and it doesn't build any character, it destroys it. I can vouch for this as I was a victim of systematic and constant bullying throughout my high school years and it took me nearly ten years to recover from it and become the person I am today. I do not suffer bullies lightly. As for my bullies? I'm wealthy and have a big ass house and a beautiful wife and all three of them are on benefits and live in shitty flats with scabby girls who cheat on them. Also one of them's an alcoholic. Who's the loser now you fags?

 

[Jack Haywood]

There's been some controversy in my home of posh country (UK) about corrective bullying and whether there's a distinction between harassment and necessary life lessons.

I personally think bullying is underrated. It builds character and gives people an understanding of what life will be like.

What are your thoughts?

Criticism of people's personality flaws and occasional two-sided fighting should be allowed. But no-one should be verbally or physically abused repeatedly with no reason other than for sadistic pleasure. That's just wrong no matter what age you are or what culture you're in.

 

[JU 199]

There's a difference between bullying and life lessons. Conflict is fine, growing up you'll soon learn that not everyone is going to be your friend. Bullying is psychological torture and it doesn't build any character, it destroys it. I can vouch for this as I was a victim of systematic and constant bullying throughout my high school years and it took me nearly ten years to recover from it and become the person I am today. I do not suffer bullies lightly. As for my bullies? I'm wealthy and have a big ass house and a beautiful wife and all three of them are on benefits and live in shitty flats with scabby girls who cheat on them. Also one of them's an alcoholic. Who's the loser now you fags?

Criticism of people's personality flaws and occasional two-sided fighting should be allowed. But no-one should be verbally or physically abused repeatedly with no reason other than for sadistic pleasure. That's just wrong no matter what age you are or what culture you're in.

Tbh the I originally designed this thread to be a honeypot for my amusement. I agree with both of you.

 

[Vitriol]

Tbh the I originally designed this thread to be a honeypot for my amusement. I agree with both of you.

and with that i think this thread finishes nicely.