It's always sad when a young life is cut short. It's particularly repulsive when it's children who make other children feel so worthless that they feel like their life is worthless and end up taking their own life. Something very evil about this because it's children harming children in a way that has life and death consequences. As adults, we hope that our life experience keeps us from harming other people in ways that destroy their meaning for life. Our life experiences when we were kids, we hope, would give us the compassion necessary not to destroy a persons's sense of worth. Hell, we have enough to worry about as it is. I would never want to be a student who was part of a smear campaign to hurt them to cause them to commit suicide. That's awful.
Bullying needs harsher consequences, because the outcomes can also be harsh. I don't really know what the answer is, because nowadays, kids see someone who does jail time as cool. So putting a bully in a "pump me up the ass" prison would only kill them also. Two or more lives cut short by bullying.
Maybe we have to get to the point where we lethally inject bullies as a deterrent to other kids wanting to bully. Sounds crazy I know, but kids need to know this is very wrong. Criminalizing a bully might just make them a better criminal. Also, in the days of Facebook, bullying becomes a wider audience, and immediate thing that is constantly there 24/7 among one's peers. There is no downtime from this type of humiliation. so kids that are bullied get no rest from it even ad home.
There is something very dark when someone takes it upon themselves to destroy one's social network because they hate them, and spreads lies to destroy the relationships between them. This type of behaviour is ultimately self defeating, but it has a very real immediate impact.
It's tragic when anyone commits suicide because they feel that their self of worth is meaningless. It's easy to propagate this using Facebook. And even though not exclusive to children, but especially so, the gossip mill has a way of really hurting them. At least when there was no Facebook, a kid could go home, cry it out, talk with their parents, get some downtime and go back to school. Here, the hurting continues through Facebook when school is over and they go home. No downtime from bullying.
Sometime I feel like bullies should just be taken to a room of adults and get the shit kicked out of them.
It the case of Amanda Todd, while am always sad to hear of a child committing suicide, I certainly feel that a lot of attention has been given to her because she is white, young, somewhat pretty, a girl, had topless photos, a teen, etc, etc, etc. Had this been a brown girl, this probably would not have made international news. The pain is the same.
I also suspect that there are probably some guys on here who would have liked to fuck her, and that's probably why these threads are going on so much. While everyone is concerned (which is right), the same amount of concern and investment should be made for the brown kid who commits suicide. I imagine that this would have been long forgotten if this were the case.
Bullying needs harsher consequences, because the outcomes can also be harsh. I don't really know what the answer is, because nowadays, kids see someone who does jail time as cool. So putting a bully in a "pump me up the ass" prison would only kill them also. Two or more lives cut short by bullying.
Maybe we have to get to the point where we lethally inject bullies as a deterrent to other kids wanting to bully. Sounds crazy I know, but kids need to know this is very wrong. Criminalizing a bully might just make them a better criminal. Also, in the days of Facebook, bullying becomes a wider audience, and immediate thing that is constantly there 24/7 among one's peers. There is no downtime from this type of humiliation. so kids that are bullied get no rest from it even ad home.
There is something very dark when someone takes it upon themselves to destroy one's social network because they hate them, and spreads lies to destroy the relationships between them. This type of behaviour is ultimately self defeating, but it has a very real immediate impact.
It's tragic when anyone commits suicide because they feel that their self of worth is meaningless. It's easy to propagate this using Facebook. And even though not exclusive to children, but especially so, the gossip mill has a way of really hurting them. At least when there was no Facebook, a kid could go home, cry it out, talk with their parents, get some downtime and go back to school. Here, the hurting continues through Facebook when school is over and they go home. No downtime from bullying.
Sometime I feel like bullies should just be taken to a room of adults and get the shit kicked out of them.
It the case of Amanda Todd, while am always sad to hear of a child committing suicide, I certainly feel that a lot of attention has been given to her because she is white, young, somewhat pretty, a girl, had topless photos, a teen, etc, etc, etc. Had this been a brown girl, this probably would not have made international news. The pain is the same.
I also suspect that there are probably some guys on here who would have liked to fuck her, and that's probably why these threads are going on so much. While everyone is concerned (which is right), the same amount of concern and investment should be made for the brown kid who commits suicide. I imagine that this would have been long forgotten if this were the case.
