What makes bullying rewarding?
We approach bullies by trying to get them to empathize with
their victims, but I don’t think that seems to work very well.
Nothing is more frightening than seeing our own insecurities
manifested. Our basest impulses are to
destroy weakness before it can somehow contaminate or hurt us.
Perhaps a better way to approach bullying is to teach who
and what a bully is instead of what he shouldn’t do. Rather than glorifying cutting wit and surreptitious actions as
the domain of the uber intelligent, it might make more sense to show it for the
insecure and limited response that it is.
Bullies are the epitome of narcissists. Focusing on their victims is like trying to
teach milk to shape itself into a glass, hopelessly impossible. They need to see that their actions define
them as something less than stellar individuals.
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