The kid usually can't do anything about that even if they fight back.
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Like I said, the people who think in these terms should be unsurprised when bullied.
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Giving yourself more options to deal with your adversaries is one of the most important parts of growing up into a mature adult.
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Such as?
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It's all very context-dependent. Whether and how to respond to violence, whether you can seek support from teachers, and the particular proclivities of the bully all matter. Asking for the answer in a tweet is the wrong mindset: figuring it out is the process of maturing.
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So easy to say. You're just offering platitudes. "Figure it out." Magically? Okay. Give me one practical example: a weak, intellectual kid picked on by ALL his classmates, year after year. And the answer can't be a dindu solution that puts him in juvenile detention or prison.
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You could easily construct a hypothetical where the kid has no options, and then you would be right to conclude that nothing can be done. Life isn't a hypothetical where we have to accept the premises that nothing can be done, that there is no escape. Don't give up.
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I don't need to construct a hypothetical. I lived it. It wasn't hypothetical. It was my life. It's you that's fabricating a fiction. Construct me a hypothetical where the kid HAS an option. That doesn't involve juvenile detention or prison.
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E.g., teachers were contacted. By me. By my parents. It didn't help. It made it WORSE. I'm calling your bluff. I don't mean this antagonistically. I'm just saying that your claims that there is a solution awaiting being figure out are not real. Not in my case; not in many cases.
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