by Ashiok Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:50 am
Just gonna point out that such a negligible amount of any given population will ever actually commit suicide that expressing it almost like it's the "big issue" is pretty stupid.
Although, from what I was gonna say, Johnny said pretty much all of it.
And idk how the whole story Goose linked goes, since it was too depressing for me to want to finish watching.
Sometimes you can stand up to the bullies, and sometimes there's absolutely nothing you can do, and I say that as a victim of numerous bullies from when I was 6 'til I was 13.
Some bullies can stop easily, just by you going to get help. Sometimes, no matter what you do, it can be damn near impossible to do so. Heck, a while after one of the kids that used to bully me got expelled from middle school, he was hanging around my bus stop and tried to shoot me with metal BB bullets. I guess it can be considered fortunate he was already having trouble with the police, so it stopped after that time.
Point is, some bullies go to stupid extremes, and they can just be impossible to stop.
They're the absolute scum of the Earth, but in reality we'll never, ever be able to deal with all of them.
Then, of course, everyone takes their experiences differently, some people end up developing social anxiety, unstable mental states, the whole nine yards. Then, there are people who end up toughening up from it, or manage to fight back and win, and the latter are a lot more fortunate. The thing is, the damage is done by then, and no one deserves it. Just makes me wish that, as a race, we could actually support each other more, and not stand idly by when we do see shit like that happening to people, and f*** I'm guilty of just standing idly by without intervening when I could've helped. It's human flaw, unfortunately, but it's about time people step it up a notch if they really want to deal with bullying.