Bullying

Bullying is bad. So say they who claim goodness.  Bullying can be very damaging to a person. The person it effects is not the bully, but the victim (duh).  Bullying is intimidating and abusing people who are lesser or weaker.  I don't know why bullying happens, but it has been going on for a very long time.

Bullying has been going on for a long time.  The Egyptian Pharaohs tormented other Egyptians and the Jews. In relation to what we are learning in classes right now, colonists tormented the Indians.  Here the Indians were. Just playing nicely by themselves and here comes England and knocks over their sandcastle.  That last statement could be taken very close to literally.  The English came to American and told the natives to leave. Why should they leave? Because. My king, who you've never heard of, said I now get this land.  Pretty unfair right? Well, at least the English weren't the Spanish.  The Spanish did not even tell the natives to leave, they just killed the natives or forced them into slavery.

I have no idea why bullying exists other than that it is a way for the bully to feel good about themselves.  It feels good to be better than someone at some thing.  If you have ever played sports, it feels good to win, but no one likes to lose.  It also feels good to know something someone else doesn't.  To be good at something gives one the sense of self worth, as it rightly should. However I don't believe that we should hurt people who do not deserve it. We should not detriment their intelligence unless they deserve it either.  Why would this feel good? This is rhetorical, of course, but I really don't know.  I don't feel good when I hurt someones feelings; I feel bad.  I do not instigate fights unless I believe the other person needs to learn their place, and even then I tell them to knock it off first.  I can not imagine how broken one's life must be to only be able to get a sense of self worth by tormenting the innocent.