03-31-2011, 11:25 AM
I typically do whatever I can to avoid violence as well. It's usually possible to handle a situation with wise words or wise actions. I have walked away from more than my share of provocations. I have even forcibly removed friends from provocations which were turning into fights in order to prevent them from happening. Usually it makes more sense to walk away. But repeated bullying is a different matter, and bullies typically only understand one thing: force.
On that note, I find it interesting how the trend in the United States for a long time has been going further and further in the direction of taking away the victim's rights and giving them to the assailant. You can't respond to a bully without getting in trouble while the bully gets away with bullying? How about someone trespassing in my yard can sue me if they step on a nail while trespassing? Or a burglar who gets hurt while committing a crime who then turns around and sues the person they were stealing from? We have such great laws here. They sure do promote personal responsibility.
Not gonna do a sub for dealing with bullies anytime soon, though, if I do one at all. How to deal with that situation is too situation specific I think.
On that note, I find it interesting how the trend in the United States for a long time has been going further and further in the direction of taking away the victim's rights and giving them to the assailant. You can't respond to a bully without getting in trouble while the bully gets away with bullying? How about someone trespassing in my yard can sue me if they step on a nail while trespassing? Or a burglar who gets hurt while committing a crime who then turns around and sues the person they were stealing from? We have such great laws here. They sure do promote personal responsibility.
Not gonna do a sub for dealing with bullies anytime soon, though, if I do one at all. How to deal with that situation is too situation specific I think.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!