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> “ studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.” > Sou
by tablespoon 4y ago
> “ studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.”
> Sounds almost like victim blaming. If true, if there’s something about the bullied that causes them to be bullied, perhaps bullying is actually a form of social correction. Not that nature should be our guide, but often harsh social behavior is functional from an evolutionary standpoint. That said,
A distinction needs to be made between post-facto "victim blaming" and prevention that involves potential victims. Conflating the two leads one to oppose good measures out of an allegiance to an unrealistically perfect, ideologically-motivated fantasy (that social problems can and should be solved only by authorities applying pressure to the "guilty" people").