Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
From my experience, those that hold the bullied are at fault are most likely to either have never been bullied themselves or were the bullies themselves.
Bully Pays the Price When Victim Fights Back
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From my experience, those that hold the bullied are at fault are most likely to either have never been bullied themselves or were the bullies themselves.
Pretty much, yea.
Yes. There's roughly nothing you can do to change my position on this matter.
Narz
keeping it real
Yes, very messed up. That's why I dropped out. I wasn't very challenged there anyway & socially very alienated. Of course in retrospect it was not such a bright decision because then my parents bugged out & set me to a variety of bizarre & draconian boarding/"alternative" schools. But that's for another thread.
Anyway, it's important to remember as an adult one can recreate oneself.
I didn't watch the video (I don't like to watch violence late at night, it f's with my sleep) but I imagine it must've felt great to fight back like that. I've only fought back a very few times but every time was satisfying & I've never regretted any (even though they'd occasionally lead to worse consequences later).
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
I'm already broken beyond repair.
Just think of that poor US soldier who lost both legs and an arm. If he can get on with hes life after that horrific event then so can you.
Narz
keeping it real
I used to believe that at 15 after a particularly bad experience. Then my life got a lot worse.I'm already broken beyond repair
Now I have a daughter so I can't really afford that attitude but it took me a long time & a lot of mental/emotional work to overcome it. I still bemoan my past circumstances sometimes & am jealous of those younger than me who had a better start on life than me but there's nothing to do about the past & hopefully I still have 50-60 more years ahead of me & generally being miserably & regretful just leads to more wasted time & more bad experiences.
Yeah CG, think of all the poor deluded souls who've lost limbs in Iraq, been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, been cheated on by their lonesome & neglected spouses while overseas committing & risking sanctioned murder so war profiteers can make profits & win elections. Now that's humiliating!
http://www.politicalarticles.net/bl...erican-soldiers-scheduled-to-die-for-nothing/
Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
Ha, ha-ha! That little shrimpy kid got just what he deserved! Props to the victim for stopping where I'd have been getting started.
Shame he wasn't permanently crippled, really; its hard to go up to someone and keep punching them in the face out of the blue like that if you're confined to a wheelchair.
Erm, where does "liberalism" and "conservatism" come into play in this thread?
And if anything, its been the "conservatives" who have been saying the victim was completely in the right, and the bleeding-heart hippie peaceniks who've been holding the "violence is never right people can always work this out in a non-violent way honest!" line.
Shame he wasn't permanently crippled, really; its hard to go up to someone and keep punching them in the face out of the blue like that if you're confined to a wheelchair.
Erm, where does "liberalism" and "conservatism" come into play in this thread?
And if anything, its been the "conservatives" who have been saying the victim was completely in the right, and the bleeding-heart hippie peaceniks who've been holding the "violence is never right people can always work this out in a non-violent way honest!" line.
LOL not in NZ and Aus.
I'm a liberal and I would have broken both his legs by choice if I had been him.
You do not get it dear boy do you, Aus and Kiwi liberals are both good when it comes to violence and we are more than happy to dish it out if needed.
Mise
isle of lucy
I'm 25 years old and I weigh 61kg. I used to lose in arm wrestles to girls up until age 17, and even then it was only 50-50. There is no way in hell that getting into a fight could possibly end well for me. If I fought the guy who bullied me that one time that I got bullied at school, it wouldn't show that I was tough or strong or willing to fight back or whatever. It would just show that I was weak as crap and he could kick my ass all day and not even break a sweat. Different people's situations are different... The bully was half the fat kid's size and quite clearly not strong enough to take him out. That's not going to work for 99.999% of people who get bullied.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
I beat the crap out of the only bully I ever had. Works for 99.999% of people, you just appear to the be 0.001%.
I think the general trend with bullies is that they pick on people smaller and weaker than them. I think it's safe to say that in the majority of situations, the bully is going to win a fight. But I always thought the argument was that even if the bully would win the fight, they would rather not bully someone who will actually make them fight.
Mise
isle of lucy
Maybe it's because people who have a chance of winning the fight do fight back, and people who have no chance don't fight back, and so end up getting bullied the most? It's not rocket science. "Bullies target the ones who don't fight back" might as well say "bullies target the ones who are too weak to fight back". Not that hard a concept...
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Then start punching and don't stop until said bully is has ceased to move.
Mise
isle of lucy
Yeah, I guess that's where I was going wrong - I wasn't winning my fights. I kept losing them! I should have stopped losing the fights, and started winning them instead. Why didn't I think of that!!!!
