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People are a danger to society.
 there is a guy who gets it on with three girls at once and they all have amazing unibrows
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Reply 3 of 53 (Originally posted on: 03-18-11 09:45:27 PM)
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So this is really only a problem because it happened at school. If it had happened out on the street, the parents would just discipline their kids and that would be that. I had a terrible temper until I was ten, and it used to be a neighbourhood game to make fun of the tall kid until he went crazy and chased you down. As a bonus, you sometimes got to fight that kid if he caught up to you. It was good exercise, and he couldn't hit that hard, although if he caught you, you usually got pinned and took a few shots to the face before he went inside in tears. I was only ever bullied outside of school, and it's a good thing, too, because it's a sure thing that teachers don't (and usually can't, without some sort of absurd penalty) do anything about it.
My parents were always sure to point out that no matter what the other kids had said, being violent was worse and didn't solve anything. They also mostly laughed at how upset I got until the day I took a garden spade out of the garage before commencing pursuit across the field next door. Then they apparently considered getting me some therapy, but I became extremely patient out of nowhere when I was ten, so that was the end of that.
Also, I got suspended for getting kicked in the balls in grade eight. It was considered "involvement in a fight". That was idiotic and I did a week and a half's worth of homework in my afternoon off and spent the next day relaxing and playing games on the computer.
So I guess my opinion is that violence is dumb and doesn't solve anything, but I'm glad the kid stuck up for himself when he was getting punched. Any one of those other kids could have stepped in and told that little dude to cut it out. They're entirely complicit in this, and they need to be taught to interfere when something obviously wrong is happening. It really does make a difference to have someone else step in and defend you, and let you know that someone sympathizes with you, even if the bullying doesn't stop. The few times I was able to help out someone being made fun of, or quite literally attacked in gym class, it usually resulted in a new friend, and more often than not, a notable change in confidence for that person as well.
So that's some of my life shoehorned into an opinion on this news story.
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