Provocative new study finds bullies have highest self esteem, social status, lowest rates of depression

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This is continued some but I wonder how everyone sees this......... I've done no fact checking so feel free to destroy this if you can.

Bullies are less likely to be depressed and suffer from self-esteem issues than those who get bullied, YOU DON'T *** SAY?!?!?!

A Canadian study. I'm going to have to stop you right there !

What about people who enjoy being demeaned?

Amended:

What about the section stating it's not a learned behaviour but hard-wired into our DNA so to speak? Feels more like the Evil gene Theory resurfacing.

Too late!

I'm not sure about full on hardcore bullying, but I could see it.

However, I thought bullies bullied cause of growing up in broken households or something.

I'm going be honest, I didn't read the article. Just the larger font text.

Young people tend to do whatever it works to impress the peers. In the school paradigm, unfortunately, there's the winners and the losers and that's how many are going to approach it. Impress your peers by showing you're not part of the losers group, detach yourself and obstentate dominance, with disregard of consequences for the victims(because at that age not many are able to process the weight their own actions have).

Put a jock that is somewhat stupid in a class of genius kids and they will likely be bullies just as in what is usually the standard opposite scenario.

Instinct to fit in + raging hormones + pack mentality do a very bad mix.

All of this reminds me of high school which I've drank beer to forget !

How dare you cause me emotional stress on a Tuesday !

Sounds like Bruce Jenner !

what about bullies who bully someone simply because they don't like em?

It's the beginning of a fascist life style.

The end of the fascists life cycle is accusing everyone but yourself of being a fascist !

It's a common theme. The bullies, as far as most studies across the globe have reported (and they seem to be saying the same thing) is that those who are bullied at home, tend to do it because of several reasons:

1. It's shown as acceptable practice to pick on the weak.

2. by picking on the weak, those who are bullied at home, or in another private setting, do so to build up their self-esteem.

3. There has been little evidence to support the idea that it makes all bullies feel good - many bully others simply so they don't become the victim (and feel like ***for being bullied into bullying another)

4. Not all bullies come from a broken home - Many come from a well intact house hold, but learn behavior that is contrary to what their parents have taught them (and the parents often deny any wrongdoing on the part of their child/children), but still manage to enable such activities.

5. Of those who come from a well to do, and very close family, they still learn the behavior to bully others that are seen as inferior to them due to social standing, ethnicity, education, position, and other such factors.

6. In a just and moral (subjective, I know) society, how is bullying good for the soul? The study seems to suggest that bullying others leads to kids feeling better about themselves (at least, the ones that aren't beaten up or bullied every day of their lives into a bottomless black pit of despair that follows them home) and that they will grow up to be productive, rather than destructive, members of society.

7. While this part is purely personal experience on my part, very few of the bullies of my day ever went on to be anything remotely productive. Of the ones who personally came out to apologize, they experienced personal growth and development - which is what lead them to become functioning adults who could own up to their mistakes and blunders, grow from it, and teach others not to make the same mistake more than twice.

8. Bullies, according to many reports worldwide, often operate as a group because they are weak themselves on an individual level, or have some kind of fear, where numbers makes it easier to prey on those they see as weak. Very few bullies out there, can operate on their own.

I'd go on, but it feels like I'm ranting now.

9. I don't have anything to add I just like numbers !

That's deep man.

For the longest time I thought Mussolini was an Italian restaurant not a brutal fascist !

I thought it was a soup.

"Waiter, my soup has a mustache in it"

I did a google search and could find not find the article name or journal it is supposedly published in.

I'd like to see the questionnaire used and see her methodology section before giving an opinion, but I'm not impressed by
1) a questionnaire being used at one high school for 135 students then using that as the basis to make large assumptions on bullies everywhere
2) about the DNA hardwire versus learned behavior, that is her opinion that was not tested in this study.


So, so far, I'm not impressed with her analysis.

Getting bullied when I was in school was beneficial to me in the long run. Even some of the kids doing it told me they just wanted me to be a better person. I thought they were *** with me, but now I think it might have been "tough love". Bullying the weak makes them stronger, this is something that is found in most species of animal as well.

We have our own bully in chief Obama. Just try to disagree with him !

Sorta related to bullying. To be successful in life sometimes you have to be the bully. I have no evidence to prove it but it sounds good !

Having read the article linked, it really sounds like a lot of fluff from someone trying to make a name for herself with something controversial sounding, when it's really just ***.

Mussolini did not have a mustache.

Statistically speaking, that's exactly what it is.

Is there such a concept as systematic bullying?

Showing up to a black lives matter as the only white guy. Then saying all lives matter.

There is.

Only it's called Systematic Oppression. It's a concept that's culturally ingrained and comes from generations of learned behavior.

All you need to do is look at the long standing corruption in many police precincts, and even within the RCMP. (sorry, had to include Canada, otherwise people jump on outsiders for bashing America)