The right way to stop a bully

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by lookout123

That's usually what happens when you wade in with your smartass pseudointellectual quips and then someone asks what you would rather have happened. Bye bye.

Cite, or go punch someone, tough-guy-wanna-be.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Cite, or go punch someone, tough-guy-wanna-be.

OK, I spent the whole weekend punching a clown. I figured that would give you enough time to answer Pete Zicato's question. How you coming on that? In case you forgot I'll repost his question.

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

How do you think this should have gone and what would you expect the outcome to be?

Be specific.

Now on a more serious note Spexx I think you misunderstand the motivation behind the thread and some of the comments. I don't take any pleasure in someone's pain. I very much support and give a huge shout out to anyone who finally realizes they don't have to take that shit or live in fear. In this case I recognize and am pleased for the boy who has decided enough is enough and chooses to stop being a victim. I also support life lessons that can benefit all involved at a young age. In this case the former victim learned a lesson but hopefully the bully did as well. Hopefully he will realize that other people aren't there to make him feel like billy bigboots. Hopefully in the future he will choose not to pick on others he perceives to be weaker than himself.

Sometimes lessons are painful but the pain involved is not the source of enjoyment but merely a catalyst for change.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by lookout123

OK, I spent the whole weekend punching a clown. I figured that would give you enough time to answer Pete Zicato's question. How you coming on that? In case you forgot I'll repost his question.

This is how that works: I post a specific, and you strawman argue it to death. I'm not going there. Like UT, I tire of this.

Originally Posted by lookout123

Now on a more serious note Spexx I think you misunderstand the motivation behind the thread and some of the comments. I don't take any pleasure in someone's pain. I very much support and give a huge shout out to anyone who finally realizes they don't have to take that shit or live in fear. In this case I recognize and am pleased for the boy who has decided enough is enough and chooses to stop being a victim. I also support life lessons that can benefit all involved at a young age. In this case the former victim learned a lesson but hopefully the bully did as well. Hopefully he will realize that other people aren't there to make him feel like billy bigboots. Hopefully in the future he will choose not to pick on others he perceives to be weaker than himself.

Sometimes lessons are painful but the pain involved is not the source of enjoyment but merely a catalyst for change.

Timothy McVeigh felt that the incidences at Ruby Ridge and Whitby Island were the US government bullying him and his kind. So he retaliated using violence, and blew up the Murrah Building. Osama Bin Laden felt that the US was bullying Muslims, so he arranged to have some jets flown into some buildings on American soil.

You can behave like McVeigh or Bin Laden. I will behave like Gandhi or MLK.

Yes, Flint, this is hyperbole. Sometimes hyperbole is useful in getting a point across.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

This is how that works: I post a specific, and you strawman argue it to death. I'm not going there. Like UT, I tire of this.



Timothy McVeigh felt that the incidences at Ruby Ridge and Whitby Island were the US government bullying him and his kind. So he retaliated using violence, and blew up the Murrah Building. Osama Bin Laden felt that the US was bullying Muslims, so he arranged to have some jets flown into some buildings on American soil.

You can behave like McVeigh or Bin Laden. I will behave like Gandhi or MLK.

Yes, Flint, this is hyperbole. Sometimes hyperbole is useful in getting a point across.

I'm fairly certain that McVeigh didn't come running out of his house after seeing the news coverage of Ruby Ridge or Whitby Island and take the fight to the government. Rather, he hid in a basement, hatched a plot, bought supplies, and then murdered innocent people completely unattached to either grievance.

Good old Osama tried to blow up a building to make a political statement. Not the White House, Capitol Building or Supreme Court, not even a military base, instead he tried to blow up a commercial building filled with an international hodgepodge of people. That didn't work so years later he came back with planes. Statement made. "Fuck you America"

Neither situation even remotely correlates with a kid standing still and taking punches and then deciding he'd had enough before immediately repulsing the attack, downing his attacker, ensuring he wouldn't be attacked again, and walking away

I have great respect for Ghandi and MLK, and I respect your right to behave in that manner when you are presented with the opportunity. It might be important to remember though that if we all felt and behaved as you suggest we would all be at the mercy of the thugs and bullies because no one would be there to slap them down.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I agree that conflicts should be resolved without violence. I am not a barbarian.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

But mature adults don't condone that behavior.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I will behave like Gandhi or MLK.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

The big kid should have pulled out his piece and shot the little fucker in the head.

[Spexxvet]

You show an amazing lack of understanding sarcasm.

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

You show an amazing lack of understanding sarcasm.

Its willful, I do believe.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Yeah, it's hard to detect when your quotes are snatched and then scattered all out of order and stuff.

I clicked one out of order. Crucifixion worthy.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

You show an amazing lack of understanding sarcasm.

Yeh its me - Where was the sarcasm? I'm sure that it took you 30 posts to later change your tune. Whatever.

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Its willful, I do believe.

Shawnee - check
Spexxie - check
Pico & me - check
Only one missing. Not bad for one post in under 2 hours as well.
Go team!