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In reply to the discussion: Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds [View all]caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Neither do your "authorities" on Wikipedia. Your objection implies that your definition is a settled fact. It isn't. People will read the point I made, and I hope, see the impracticality and downright wrongness of trying to apply the word bully to every aggravating action, and to define it in their minds very carefully. It doesn't stop anymore bullying if you go after everything else you can fit under the lable.
The manager with firing power threatens your livelihood. I don't understand how you could not see that I was including threats in the definition of bullying. Now you're simply misconstruing what I wrote, creating a straw man.
Believe me, I've been at the receiving end of many types of bullying, and I'm permanently, physically injured on account of it. You don't have to give me a lesson on the many varieties that there are.
I'm sorry, the "eventually justice will be done argument" often doesn't work when damage being done is immediate. And when you talk about a retaliation thread being hidden, how do you know the original, offending post wasn't a matter of bullying that the jury wouldn't hide?
The jury system is not just flawed, it's fatally flawed. The only way it works is by random chance. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.