Flatearther
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- Sep 14, 2006
The standard version of the bully places a large fat kid in a schoolyard physically shoving & handling a short kid with glasses in or around a schoolyard. That's about as accurate an assessment as applying the abstract noun 'racist' to a person who criticises an Italian, fully knowing that 'Italian' is not a race. Plain mischievous.
Police officers are often accused of 'bullying' when applying authority in an emotively charged social situation.Military personnel are labelled with this slur when enforcing security measures. No one calls the sweet little female in a uniform a bully when she clearly enjoys frustrating clients in a social security/council application scenario. Sometimes the real bullies are overlooked as the factual culprits just as surely as innocent persons are handed that tag unjustly. Bullying is as natural as grass. There will always be those more clever, powerful, crafty, wise or manipulative than others and the natural pecking order is established without a word uttered. Bullies are the natural elements of a society's 'immune system'. They perform the social equivalent of the scavenger and purge unwanted detritus from the system. Bullies do not believe they are bad. Just different. Religion has its own system of bullying within its ranks. Every social system has its moral guardians (bullies) - is it not time for a little insight and tolerance?
Police officers are often accused of 'bullying' when applying authority in an emotively charged social situation.Military personnel are labelled with this slur when enforcing security measures. No one calls the sweet little female in a uniform a bully when she clearly enjoys frustrating clients in a social security/council application scenario. Sometimes the real bullies are overlooked as the factual culprits just as surely as innocent persons are handed that tag unjustly. Bullying is as natural as grass. There will always be those more clever, powerful, crafty, wise or manipulative than others and the natural pecking order is established without a word uttered. Bullies are the natural elements of a society's 'immune system'. They perform the social equivalent of the scavenger and purge unwanted detritus from the system. Bullies do not believe they are bad. Just different. Religion has its own system of bullying within its ranks. Every social system has its moral guardians (bullies) - is it not time for a little insight and tolerance?