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quas wrote:

Weaver wrote:It always stuns me that there are people here who support bullying behaviors, and support a return to the tacit approval of bullying by authority figures, despite the number of kids who have killed themselves or others after being bullied.

That's the only way to deal with bullies. You do not reason with them.

No, it is not.

Back in my high school years, there was this kid that the entire classroom picked on. The teachers were completely at a lost. One of the teachers even asked the bullied victim what's wrong with him, that he becomes such a target.

Because blaming the victim is always the best way. After all, we tolerate it with rape victims, right?

Only thing that eventually stopped the bullying was the discipline master threatening to cane anyone involved.

So, you're saying, after lots of tacit approval by authority figures, once the discipline master put his foot down and indicated the bullying would no longer be tolerated, it stopped?

Bit of an own goal there, as they say, isn't it?

As for the bullies though, last I heard a few of them are now working with the police force. One of them in particular, proudly posted on his facebook that he has been assigned to a special task force that's allowed to stop criminals by "any means necessary".

And? What are the rest of them doing? Any non-bullies who became cops?

Sure, we can debate the hypocrisies of using violence and bullying tactics against bullies all day, but at the end of the day, deep inside we all know that there is only one way to stop Ted Bundy, Hitler, ISIS, etc.

Because all bullies are psychopaths. Because the only way to stop Bundy wasn't life in a maximum security prison, but he had to be killed, and because Bundy is just like religiously-motivated Islamist extremists stepping into a power vacuum in the M.E.

This has to be one of the dumbest, least internally consistent posts I've seen since Robert Byers was evicted from the forum.