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What’s the best modern theory of what turns people into bullies? Is there any truth to the movie trope that it’s a sort of punch-down cascade due to being abused at home? That seems very unconvincing to me. It feels like at best one kind of etiology that accounts for a fraction.
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I’ve known bullies with mild-mannered weak parents and no visible bigger-bully in their environment. The more plausible general mechanism seems to me to be that people develop an addiction to intimidation/brute force as an easy way to get what they want.
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The prevalence of bullying (rather than any specific instance) is inevitable in any compulsory mixed socialization institution with hierarchical organization and social stratification.