Bullying V2

[JU 199]

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?

 

[TheAmazingAxolotl]

We should teach kids to put up or shut up, that'll learn them

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

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.

 

[JU 199]

Not getting your ass kicked for being a sperg is what leads to shit like colleges establishing safe spaces.

Or tumblr existing.

 

[AnOminous]

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?

Depends. A certain amount of conflict and even physical confrontation is pretty normal for childhood, and whoever comes out on the losing side tends to be upset about it. Sometimes this is the result of plain old shitty behavior by children, who are rotten little bastards by and large.

But when you grow up, you're also going to have to deal with rotten grown up bastards, so you might as well have some experience with it.

Bullying becomes excessive when it's actually causing lasting physical injury or is just otherwise excessive, like say some kid is getting beat up every single day because he has red hair, because retards took that South Park episode seriously. There's not really any life lesson to be learned from being constantly stomped for no reason. At that point, adults should step in, and they usually do when things are crystal clear like that.

But there's a fine line between necessary protection and coddling kids to the point they grow up dysfunctional adults who can't cope with conflict.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I would say that bullying is a necessary part of human psychology for enforcing social mores.

 

[HG 400]

Bullying becomes excessive when it's actually causing lasting physical injury or is just otherwise excessive, like say some kid is getting beat up every single day because he has red hair, because retards took that South Park episode seriously.

No it doesn't that's still fine.

 

[Watcher]

Do we really need another thread on this?

I would say that bullying is a necessary part of human psychology for enforcing social mores.

I see bullying as an inevitable part of enforcing social norms and not a necessary one.

 

[AnimuGinger]

Honeypot!

 

[DrJoshii]

I only seen one case where a kid who is quietly minding his/her business get bullied.

It's usually some kid who writes offensive things on social media or annoys others by acting obnoxious that gets picked on.

 

[Bugaboo]

I think when it gets to the point where the kid doesn't want to go to school it's a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, but we shouldn't label everything in the universe bullying. Bullying is like, constant harassment or getting physically damaging.

I dunno, kids are all little shit bags

 

[AnOminous]

I think when it gets to the point where the kid doesn't want to go to school it's a serious problem that needs to be dealt with

NO kid wants to go to school.

 

[BT 075]

I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school. I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.

 

[Gayligula]

If it wasnt was for concerned parents and our nanny state shielding their little angels from any life experience because it may upset them, /cow/, this forum, EDF wouldnt exist and 4chan would have never gotten popular.
The internet lives of tears

 

[autisticdragonkin]

NO kid wants to go to school.

I did because I was a major nerd (and that school was my only structure in my life when I was young)

 

[Dudeofteenage]

We already discussed this and the overwhelming consensus is that bullying is awesome and if it happens to you it's your fault for being such a fag.

 

[Massif]

It seems to me like the evidence points to the contrary and that victims of actual bullying(not normal conflicts) rather deviate more from the norm and seem more likely to develop antisocial traits; similarly to how parental abuse is linked to those same things later in life.
This is clearly because they were rotten from birth and didn't respond to the benevolent corrective efforts of their peers though. Why can't they just get the fuck back in line and stop annoying us normal people!? Maybe all these fuckin' weirdos should be culled at birth so we don't have to waste our time engaging in the beautiful altruistic act of bullying.

 

[Vex Overmind]

I like to call it: Darwinian Evolution In Practice.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

It seems to me like the evidence points to the contrary and that victims of actual bullying(not normal conflicts) rather deviate more from the norm and seem more likely to develop antisocial traits; similarly to how parental abuse is linked to those same things later in life.
This is clearly because they were rotten from birth and didn't respond to the benevolent corrective efforts of their peers though. Why can't they just get the fuck back in line and stop annoying us normal people!? Maybe all these fuckin' weirdos should be culled at birth so we don't have to waste our time engaging in the beautiful altruistic act of bullying.

There might be a problem in that modern society doesn't mock victims of bullying enough so they think of themselves as martyrs instead of as deviants, and thus we get Elliot Rodger

 

[JU 199]

I rate this honeypot thread 2/10.