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Date Posted: 10:40:47 03/19/01 Mon
Author: ZoaLord
Subject: Bullying (an addition to my message concerning the relies to the post I made earlier on about tighter gun laws)

I think that no-one can comment on the bullying of todays evil levels without understanding that the levels of the past are far different to todays.
Since the whole concept of high school stereotypes has been exploited by a hungry media, then the weaker, less fortunate people who are placed into these stereotypes have been victims of a cruel social game of "survival of the fitest" where these weakest (the so-called "geeks", "nerds", ect) are picked on worse then ever because the Media uses terms of abuse (and negative attitudes) that have obvious connotations of "geeks" (my example : "Killer nerd had 5 guns"). The media in it's "why should we justify ourselves, we're always right and never wrong" attitude are except from judgement, therefore people think that the media are RIGHT to use these terms and the close-mindedness that goes with it in a reality situation, therefore everybody can and should do it.
For example, is it right that in a "civilised" society a school kid, who goes to school to learn, is picked on for any reason? No, the kid should be safe and secure as any other student there, so why some kids are inferior to other kids superiority is a mystery to me. The typical example is the "Jock vs. Geek" situation, it may be hyped but when a school sports hero is given a superiority complex, and the school is it's pride for the hero does nothing to help the situation, then something is bound to happen, and usually it's the weakest who are the first to suffer.
Sometimes, if the student is strong enough, the bullying helps to create some resistant feelings in the victimised mind, but there's no guarentee that it always happens. Sometimes only negative emotions, thoughts and feelings are created. They are usually directed internally (with paranoia, lack of self esteem, no feeling of worth and in extreme situations suicide), externally (hatred for opressors and/or sympathizers, hatred of ideals that made them a victim) or both (this is my case, at the age of 11 until I was 15 I was paranoid, self hating and felt very little worth, while developing a hatred for anything oppresive and I loathed anything that wanted people to change to suit other people). I believe the killers fit into any catogory and they just want revenge to ease the pain. Unfortuantley, too many innocent people who had nothing to do with the bullying get hurt.
OK, there is no justification for walking into a school and taking a human life if it didn't wrongfully endanger yours, but it's not like there's much choice if the seriously bullied kid's pain won't eases. I don't support it, but I don't and will never act like the emotionally and mentally unbalnced student killers were inhuman monsters.

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People are just plain mean these days.. -- Moonpie, 08:03:50 03/20/01 Tue
Re: Bullying -- Richard, 09:08:46 03/20/01 Tue
- Re: Bullying- Hi Zoalord and Richard -- Celtic Enchantress, 20:25:10 03/20/01 Tue
  - Hey Celtic, don't apoligize, the story shows that you understand the situations, and I agree, the gun was not the best method. -- ZoaLord, 02:35:20 03/21/01 Wed
- It's a universal problem, and I think that if it's sorted out in high school, all teens will turn into Adults who can think better and act wiser. -- ZoaLord, 02:26:35 03/21/01 Wed
  - Re: Hey Zoalord -- Celtic Enchantress, 12:00:21 03/22/01 Thu
    - But if a child doesn't want to talk to their parents, it isn't nessesarily the parents fault. I rarely talk to my parents about my issues, but it's not their fault. It's just something I choose not to do -- ZoaLord, 02:20:12 03/23/01 Fri
      - Re: But if a child doesn't want to talk to their parents, it isn't nessesarily the parents fault. I rarely talk to my parents about my issues, but it's not their fault. It's just something I choose not to do-Hey Zoalord; mkay -- Celtic Enchantress, 17:22:26 03/23/01 Fri