Post #2 - Bullying

            Bullying is one of the few ideas that I will accept as a sort of necessary evil.  In itself, bullying and hazing is generally bad, it physically and mentally damages the person being bullied.  At certain points, these acts that are “funny” to other people are mentally scarring children for the rest of their lives.  However, to completely extricate bullying is impossible since people sometimes act a certain way by nature.  Rather than try to completely eliminate the concept of bullying, kids must learn to stand up for themselves.  In a generation where most people find that children generally “have it too easy”, they need some sort of obstacle like this in order to build character.  Otherwise we would end up raising a generation of children who can’t voice their opinions.  They would never have had to fight back and thus would never know how to.  Sure, at some point bullying crosses the line and can be considered assault and abuse, but within certain boundaries it is a necessary part of a child’s life.