Quote:I think the main difference is that your example is about kids, and we are talking about adults.  The maturity difference means a lot.

 

I get what you are saying and agree to an extent.  The main reason kids (and in this case adults) are bullied is because they are looked at as weak and that they can not stand up for themselves.  Violence may not be the best way to solve it in most cases, but for those that can stand up to the bullies they really should.  For others, asking friends, teacheers, coaches, peers, etc...for help may be the best way.

 

At some point you have to get a backbone and stand up for yourself.

 

Kids, Adults, doesn't matter.  If you're bullying someone because you think they are weak, then you're nothing but a child yourself.  Adults will handle the situation the same way the kids at columbine did, and they have.  Adults are able to easily get a gun.  I guess then you'll have stood up for yourself when you shoot or stab the bully. And then nobody wins.  The bully loses his life.  The bullied loses his life (to prison).  

 

 

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 Violence solves a lot of things, it might not be PC to admit or say, but your entire world of rule and law is dictated by violence. It's one of the dumbest cliches around, what does violence solve, answer almost everything like it or not.

Violence may solve bullying, but it's not the best solution.  If Jack is bullying Joe, and Joe goes and gets a gun and shoots Jack, Jack isn't going to bully Joe anymore because Jack is dead.  Joe solved his bully problem.  But in the end he goes to prison or gets shot by a police officer.  
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