What is your basis for saying the child is innocent. Do you know things that the rest of us don’t?
How can the work “bullying” mean anything if you can’t provide your won definition of it.
To this point you have not provided even one logical element to support your position. I’m waiting.
I read the story. This story is what I’m commenting on. I haven’t taken the liberty of making up a different story. If you were commenting on some other story in which the child was guilty of something, you didn’t make that clear.
I also haven’t taken the liberty of creating a new definition for the word “bullying.” If you want to know what I mean by that word, or any other word I use, look it up in the dictionary. I already explained how that word applies to this situation. You keep trying to negotiate the definition with me, as if I have the authority to change it for you, and as if the morality of punishing a child with humiliation for something he has no control over somehow hinges on the meaning of the word “bullying.” If you changed the definition of every word in the English language, bullying would still be wrong. If you translated this story into Chinese, bullying would still be wrong. If you don’t like the word “bullying” as it applies to this story, feel free to use any word of your own choosing. It won’t change what happened, or make it right, but it might help you cope.
I don’t know why you’re having such a hard time understanding these basic facts. Normal people learn these things when they’re very young children. Most of the children in the classroom in this story probably know better than to bully anyone, especially someone smaller and weaker than themselves. It’s baffling to me that anyone can reach adulthood without learning this simple truth. I know there some of you out there, but I can only imagine the circumstances that would create such a mindset.