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When is bullying justified?

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Frosty the Snowman said:
Yeah. They will bully people who are by themselves because they are easier to bully, rather than trying to bully someone in a crowd. It's a power thing. They can control the situation more when they are bullying one person as opposed to trying to bully someone in a crowd. Even if that bully has a crony or two, they can bully someone who is hanging out with 5 or 6 or 7 friends because he's outnumbered. Basically, there is safety in numbers.
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Some bullied people deserve it because they are bullies or on the path of becoming a bully. Nonetheless, the motive for bullying the bullies isn't always a good one. Even in those situations, the bullies get off on superiority and power etc..

Of course, there could also literally be situations where people are bullied who didn't have it coming, but I think it's the minority of cases.
 
I've argued my case many times. I think bullying isn't right, at the same time for me as a kid, some of it was good. I was a bit of a baby and it taught me to be tough. I eventually learnt to stand up for myself. The world is cruel and your going to need to be able to defend yourselves in life. I now won't/wouldn't back down from anything or anyone. I am as prideful as they come.
 
T.C. said:
I've argued my case many times. I think bullying isn't right, at the same time for me as a kid, some of it was good. I was a bit of a baby and it taught me to be tough. I eventually learnt to stand up for myself. The world is cruel and your going to need to be able to defend yourselves in life. I now won't/wouldn't back down from anything or anyone. I am as prideful as they come.
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I agree with you 100%! My mother told me something similar when I was about 11 or 12. Also this is one of the reasons I'm against home schooling. Bullying is HORRIBLE, but IMHO the media only shows extreme cases. Not everyone kills themselves or their bullies. It has been going on since the beginning of time. Yes, it can get out of hand but usually people grow out of it. I was bullied by the same guy from age 10 to about 13 or 14. Eventually I stood up to him. I moved away but coming home to visit one year we ran into each other. We hung out almost every day during my two week visit. That was when I was about 25, I'm 45 now and to this day he's one of my best friends.
 
digicashceo said:
I agree with you 100%! My mother told me something similar when I was about 11 or 12. Also this is one of the reasons I'm against home schooling. Bullying is HORRIBLE, but IMHO the media only shows extreme cases. Not everyone kills themselves or their bullies. It has been going on since the beginning of time. Yes, it can get out of hand but usually people grow out of it. I was bullied by the same guy from age 10 to about 13 or 14. Eventually I stood up to him. I moved away but coming home to visit one year we ran into each other. We hung out almost every day during my two week visit. That was when I was about 25, I'm 45 now and to this day he's one of my best friends.
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haha, enemies becoming friends isn't uncommon. Except I was actually homeschooled for a portion of my life. Not because of "bullying." But the local school sucked. It all worked out.
 
I don't think that bullying is ever truly justified. Although I do sometimes think that it's not the bully's fault. Bullies don't just do what they do because they think it's fun, and it's usually not because they want to be cool either. Bullies bully because they have built up anger, because something happened to them that made them feel that way. In a huge amount of bullying cases, it's due to the student either being bullied himself, or being abused in some way by his parents. This can include physical, verbal, or emotional abuse.

You said some people deserve to be bullied because they themselves are bullies, but doesn't that just leave you with two bullies?
 
In general bullying can never be justified but there are thin line between saying what is true and being mean towards another so that is the case sometimes. Sometimes some assumed they were bullied by their friends, but on their friends side they were just trying to say the true regardless of how their friend would feel because they thought it was the better thing to do than lie. What I think is wrong with that is "How they are saying the truth." There are better way to say the truth without offending anyone. Some bullies became bully because they were a product of bullies as well. Some became one because the affection they can't get at home or from their families, they are trying to get it from others and in form of bullying. For me the best thing we can is to be a good example by one another. Be considerate and sensitive of how others would feel, let us always try to put ourselves to their shoes. Just like the golden rule "Don't do unto others what you don't want others Do unto you."
 
Heart said:
In general bullying can never be justified but there are thin line between saying what is true and being mean towards another so that is the case sometimes. Sometimes some assumed they were bullied by their friends, but on their friends side they were just trying to say the true regardless of how their friend would feel because they thought it was the better thing to do than lie. What I think is wrong with that is "How they are saying the truth." There are better way to say the truth without offending anyone. Some bullies became bully because they were a product of bullies as well. Some became one because the affection they can't get at home or from their families, they are trying to get it from others and in form of bullying. For me the best thing we can is to be a good example by one another. Be considerate and sensitive of how others would feel, let us always try to put ourselves to their shoes. Just like the golden rule "Don't do unto others what you don't want others Do unto you."
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I don't think bullying is ever justified - but maybe a light teasing is. Light teasing is something brothers or sisters do and - sometimes it's needed -because the target is a total punk that needs "to be put in their place", so to speak.

Anyway, again, as for bullying of the cruelest variety. It's never justified, but it will happen to certain people who have it coming, as well as others that don't.
 
Bullying isnt right both in childhood as well as with adults. :P also, 2 wrongs dont made something right, if someone is bullying someone else, then bullying that person just makes more bullying. :P There are other ways to deal with people and not become the same as them and that can help all people involved. :P
 
SeanQuinn87 said:
Bullying isnt right both in childhood as well as with adults. :p also, 2 wrongs dont made something right, if someone is bullying someone else, then bullying that person just makes more bullying. :p There are other ways to deal with people and not become the same as them and that can help all people involved. :p
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People resorting to bullying to get back at punks - are simply punks themselves. Ultimately, the "get back crowd" gets off on belittling others, just like original offenders.
 
Callum Clark said:
bullying is never ok imo
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But what's the difference between brother/sister teasing, trash talk, and bullying?

Heart said:
Just like the golden rule "Don't do unto others what you don't want others Do unto you."
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Yeah, but a lot of bullies, maybe all, believe the victim deserves it.
 
it becomes bullying when it becomes bullying to be honest having a tease or banter between family and friends ect is completely different from going out and running someone down to nothing, to make them feel low insecure and causing mental and physical harm bullying is never right regardless of age colour and everything else in between, bullying is something that stays with someone for the rest of their lives, However in the event of someone going after bullies there is methods to resolve that man to man woman to woman and once sorted its left there and moved on, or for people who choose to go through the more non responsive channels police, school councilors ect ect.
 
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