Does bullying really exist?

next time someone kicks your ass around and uses your face as a mop, tell your frontal cortex it is a massage and a general attention to cleanliness

Bully and bullied have ideas about differences between them. These can be shattered when the bullied finally hits back, literally or figuratively. Finding that courage or ability may take time, during which their suffering is real, or empirical.

You are completely correct, I shall locate said studies when I have finished my readings on attachment theory (if I haven't drunk too much) and share them :)

This is much easier said than done. Also, bullies tend to roam in packs, and getting a bunch of bullied people, who are already suffering, to band together and become a might morphin' fightin' team is unheard of.

Similarly, bullies don't have to be physically weak. There is such a think as mental bullying. There are tons of cases where people are being verbally harrased by people who are equally or less physically fit than them.

That's the issue here, bullying doesn't just take the form of physical aggression, it can take any form. At the very least you admitted that bullying is a thing. At that point, there's only one of two things to do: Be against bullying or support bullying. I guess you could feel apathetic about it, but then there's no point in commenting in threads like these.

Philistinepenguin

Lets find out pal.

Daddy

OMG! I hope Komrade Dukepenguin

Posted this in a very similar thread just a second ago. Pasted here because the topics are near identical in the way of Torn forum memetics....

****ing hell. What is wrong with half you people. If you all truly lack empathy to the point that you deny the existence of bullying (online or in real life) than i feel sorry for you, because putting yourself in the position of others allows you to be better understand their motivations, which is key to being successful in any venture. If you can't do that, I wish you luck in life - you will need it.

Saying bullying doesn't exist doesn't make you sound "hard" or manly, it makes you sound stupid and callous. Saying you can just "turn off the computer" doesn't make you seem clever, it makes you ignorant and unimaginative. How arrogant do you have to be to think you know better than so many other people - to think that your perspective is just "right" because you think it is. That level of arrogance can only come from profound ignorance.

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It's not that it doesn't exist, but there's simple ways to avoid it from happening.

Great post from the first, retard from the second. Its so feking simple is it? No idea how to explain the idiocy in your post mate...

Can you like pay someone to avoid it or take some kind of pill?

I explained the simple way of dealing with bullies. It's not my fault you're a pussy who is unfortunately going to raise a kid who is going to be a pussy himself. Sucks to suck.

Indeed. Saying turn off computer is a poor response. A bullied person should just check emails, read news and watch Netflix? Would their response to workplace bullying be to get another job, work from home?

Really. So most of the world recognises this an issue, millions of people claim to be the victims of bullying, governments have enacted laws to prevent it, but you know better than all of them. You're so clever that you can see the "simple" solution to this complicated problem when others can't right? Get over yourself mate.

You can tell me you don't think its a problem. That kids committing suicide are weak and don't deserve to live. Or that you just don't care about millions of people whose lives are made miserable for some part of their life. Thats your opinion and you're entitled to it, but you can't tell me theres a simple solution which you alone can see. That just means you either:

1. don't have the life experience to see that nothing is ever that simple
2. or you haven't really thought about it enough to see that it is complicated
3. or you're too dumb to understand how things can be more complicated than you think they are.

You choose.

lol you are a expert on my life now? I think you are simple and its not my fault you were raised that way. We cant all have been raised in the usual way I'm guessing ya mom was a muppet and ya dad a firehouse?

It exists but when it is done to others people tend to ignore it specially to stronger people. When duke was extorting money from rich company owners no one called it bullying now when it happened to them, they want instant action.

People talk about equality but fails to notice the rudeness of staff to donators (reason being is that staff have power ) when they fail to realize that if staff gives time and effort in game donators give time and effort in RL so that the cash wagon needed to pull the game keeps running.

And now suddenly people get touchy....................

Y'all are such hypocrites.

When a noob comes on here whining about all the bounties they're getting and being in hosp all the time and this one person who keeps coming after them - what do y'all usually tell them to do as the best possible response?

Are you implying that Thrue is wrong, through the use of "well duh in here aren't I"?

There's a difference, like in the case of KillahJ. It's one thing to do it once or twice, it's another to do it constantly and act like a dick about it. That's what makes it bullying.

As for me, while I did originally say in that thread "Bountying is part of Torn, it'll pass", that changed very quickly when I saw his behavior and continued crap. I didn't just sit back and do nothing. I stood against KillahJ's behaviour, even to his faction leader who commented on his thread. I also told people who I know and consider friends, and they stepped in and put a stop to it.

So, not everybody is a hypocrite. We can tell the difference between harmless trolling and real bullying.

It's one thing to be have somebody say 'I don't like you' place 10 bounties and then leave it at that. It's another completely when somebody says "Answer within 10minutes or I'm putting a bounty on you".