And you have to look at your statement again and ask if that’s really what you believe.
Here - again is my statement. And yes, I believe it.
Bullying (being picked on) serves a purpose. It sends a message to the weak, strange, anti-social, difficult, BRONY LOVING kids that their actions are not acceptable.
Sure, bullying can get out of hand, but on the average, being teased and laughed at (bullying - by today’s definition) is not a problem.
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If we look at an opposite argument, we see a total acceptance of boys being allowed to dress as girls and enter girls restrooms and locker rooms; girls taking female dates to proms; children being punished for drawing a picture of a gun; kids being denied to even mention God or have Christmas pagaents; yet being indoctrinated that homosexuality is natural and normal; and worse. Much worse.
Is this what you want for our kids today? I sure don't. So when kids have a natural normal reaction (AKA bullying) to abhor such perverse and unwholesome behavour then yeah. I'm all for it.
“So when kids have a natural normal reaction (AKA bullying) to abhor such perverse and unwholesome behavour then yeah. I’m all for it.”
What about the poorest kid at a rich kid’s school? His clothes are “perverse” (read: different) — so it’s okay in your book for kids to mock his Wal-mart jeans?
What about the girl with the leg brace whose sentence is exile by herself on a lunch bench, trying to choke down a peanut butter sandwich?
What about the boy who’s uncoordinated and picked last for kickball, which translates to picked last for everything? Is that a just punishment? After he’s bullied into understanding that his klutziness is “not acceptable,” just what do you propose he do with that information? Besides cultivate an intense hatred of school and other kids and the grown-ups who failed him that someday may culminate in another Columbine shooting?
Children are incapable of discerning “perverse” and “unwholesome.” That’s the job of adults. Children’s discernment stops at indiscriminate punishing of the different and the weak. They aren’t civilization-defending warriors — they are naturally cruel, selfish, and unfit to rule themselves or others. Ever read “Lord of the Flies?” That’s what you’re advocating.