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When a targeted kid physically stands up to a bully, the bully learns that there are instant and tangible consequences to his actions. Every single bully I've ever met picks on smaller, weaker kids because they don't like opposition. Punch a bully in the mouth, and next time he will look for an easier target. There is always the chance that the bully might win, but it will come at a price. The nerd might lose, but he will walk away with his honor.
Physical violence is physical violence. Insurgents, just like schoolyard bullies, don’t like engage in stand up, bang-it-out fights with someone who can hand them their asses. The insurgents pick “soft” targets. They pick on girls schools and the defenseless local populace. When the American military fights against the insurgents “it’s not like all the other problems instantly go away”. So does that mean we should just pack up shop and go home?
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If you fight the bully and he kicks your ass, even if you get a good hit in, he will still come back for more. He knows that he can take you, so he will. So what that you got him a couple times? He kicked the shit out of you, and now everyone knows that you will lose all the fights your in, inviting more bullying. Military fighting is completely different from the bullying I'm talking about.
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You did take the shit you were given. If you are going to take the moral high road, why don’t you just walk away? You engage in the “Thank you sir, may I have another?” game because you want to feel like you’re standing up for yourself with out actually having to do so. In choosing that course of action, you are sacrificing your honor. It’s the one thing that you own that cannot be taken from you. Honor can only given away. And you, apparently, give it away wholesale. That is my definition of a coward.
I’m curious; where do you draw the line? If someone called you a faggot and your mother a cunt in front of your family, would you agree with them?
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To the people that witness me agree with the bully, they might see me as losing my honor, but to me the most effective way of dealing with it was just to "defiantly agree." I didn't feel as if my honor was being given away. I didn't care how anyone else saw it, if I felt good about standing up for myself, then I was happy. To me, I did stand up for myself. To you, it seems I may not have. In the position I was in, I thought that was the best way to go about business. There wasn't one person that constantly bullied me, it was more like isolated incedents with quite a bit of time in between.
No I would not agree with them if that happened. I'd probably get in their face about that, or possibly even hit them right there without hesitation. "Thems is fighting words."
Also, how does everyone here feel about the zero tolerance policy some schools have? In my opinion, I think it screws the victim over and promotes bullying.