Community Chat

[prisrob]

I am reading a book on our Bullying Culture, and I read this paragraph that spoke to me. "We have nearly lost our fundamental respect for human beings and our anchoring boundaries of acceptable behavior towards others. We are obsessively occupied with drawing the dividing line between 'Us' and 'Them'. We treat strangers and newcomers with derision and disrespect. We have little self-control and even less emotional maturity. The smallest mistake opens the floodgates to an emotional free-for-all tirade. Animals are treated with more respect for their emotional welfare than human beings these days." I agree with the author, do you?

[scotttie]

No. Not in real life. Maybe on chat boards the flaming etc. ...but not real life.

[Cecily Gerard]

Absolutely and yes this attitude is spilling over into real life.

[occasionalrain]

No, I don't agree. We may have lost respect for those who are disrespectful, rude, and selfish.

[ROMARY]

Lack of respect toward teachers, who normally would intercept bullies and keep order on the school premises. But now-a-days, many teachers don't have the respect from kids and parents, I'm guessing. So everything is a mess, safety-wise. We didn't have any bullying in our public school, but we were raised to respect teachers and authority. Our worst 'nightmare' would be to be called into the Principal's office.

[Snowpuppy]

Nope.

What happened to parenting?

Teachers are responsible. The police. Social Workers. School counselors. Intervention specialists. Case workers.Security guards and metal detectors in schools. Every other person is responsible.

What happened to parents?

[Catitude]

On 1/20/2014 prisrob said: I am reading a book on our Bullying Culture, and I read this paragraph that spoke to me. "We have nearly lost our fundamental respect for human beings and our anchoring boundaries of acceptable behavior towards others. We are obsessively occupied with drawing the dividing line between 'Us' and 'Them'. We treat strangers and newcomers with derision and disrespect. We have little self-control and even less emotional maturity. The smallest mistake opens the floodgates to an emotional free-for-all tirade. Animals are treated with more respect for their emotional welfare than human beings these days." I agree with the author, do you?

sums it up

[onewhiteSparrow]

In the beginning stage of the internet people had to pay to go online and more to post.

When it opened up and it was free for anyone to post that was when I saw the beginning of people being mean to each other.

Maybe we need to return to where everyone has to pay to use the internet.

If you post you have to pay to send a message. Most people would not pay just to talk mean to strangers.

[adelle38]

I don't know if I would call it ""bullying"" but there certainly is a lack of civility.

[onewhiteSparrow]

In my whole world...my life....the ONLY place I have others talking mean to me is RIGHT HERE IN THIS FORUM.

No where else in the whole world do I deal with such mean people. That is saying something loud and clear about this forum.