How bullying may shape adolescent brains
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Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#2Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#3Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
No, they deserve to be punished. Is there counselling for rapists?
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#4Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
Let's focus on the actual victims first though, and stop the bullies. There is a meta-argument with regards to free will and whether and how much choice we have in the things we do, but that's a very different discussion (albeit an interesting one) and shouldn't be confused with the one about the bully's acts and immediate (and long term) results.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#5Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
No, they deserve to be punished. Is there counselling for rapists?
There should be. Society would be the better for it.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#6Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment
So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#7Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?
Maybe if you counselled them and taught them how to manage their own needs and emotions many of them would not become criminals saving society many ills.
You can not eliminate the personality that needs bullying to validate themselves from the population. You can however hep them channel those needs into other things like entrepreneurship and leadership. To productively shape their needs for power over people rather than harassing and harming them.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#8Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?
Actually, yes, they do.
You want this, especially when you know they will one day get out of jail.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment So, criminals also, by that logic, themselves need counseling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment ?
Actually, yes, they do. You want this, especially when you know they will one day get out of jail.
Not only that, they will have wives, girlfriends, and children; they may eventually have employees. You can not stop them period. They are a part of the human population. They can not be weeded out.
Re: How bullying may shape adolescent brains
#10Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment. We focus so much on the victims, we also need to focus on the perpetrators and see them as victims as well if not of anything else than their own psychology.
> Bullies themselves need counselling on managing their own needs and emotions rather than punishment
I'd replace "rather than" with "in addition to".