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I'd like to read an honest account from a former bully who matured into a fully functional adult. To this day I don't understand the motivation of terrorizing o
by duopixel 14y ago
I'd like to read an honest account from a former bully who matured into a fully functional adult. To this day I don't understand the motivation of terrorizing other kids. I've met some former bullies but it seems that they either don't remember or don't want to deal with understanding it themselves.
- robinh 14y agoNot a bully, but a bullied person who is still forced to sometimes interact with his former bullies. In my case, these people are quite functional in society, and when confronted laugh it off - seeing it is one big joke that isn't to be taken too seriously. It may be understandable that to this day, I honestly still feel my blood boil when bullying gets mentioned.
- fmavituna 14y ago> To this day I don't understand the motivation of terrorizing other kids. Really? Look at the popular culture around you, comedy movies, youtube videos, blogs all about bullying people (fail blog and all fail culture), look at the front page of reddit etc. I understand that if you don't personally connected but you can see that people enjoy other people's failures and misery. This kind of popular culture and the internet makes it even worse.
- duopixel 14y ago> people enjoy other people's failures and misery This is a very grim outlook on life. What I see in popular culture is—for the most part—people being clowns in order to draw attention. I also think that having laughs at the expense of someone else's misfortune is not at the same level as causing misfortune in order to get some laughs, completely different things.