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THE IMPACT OF CYBER BULLYING ON YOUTH
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WHY School bullying Has become more disturbing
Fast forward however to today, where children bring guns and knives to school, where children are brutalized with humiliating actions such as being urinated on, tied up, labeled with euphemisms for weak and gay and sometimes actually driven to suicide. How and why has school bullying evolved to such a disturbing level, where parents are removing their children from school just to keep them alive?
Unfortunately, the drive towards more serious and disturbing attacks on children is not dissimilar to the drive for the evolution of CYBERBULLYING, but while the motivational factors may be linked, there are other components which have lowered the dam of possibility, making the unthinkable more plausible. Corporations have fought the cliche blames on violent video games, explicit and violently suggestive music lyrics, but the reality is that our society has been progressively desensitized to violent, aggressive and incendiary behavior. Or, to view things historically, the sensitivity that modern society has created for hurting others, has been allowed to decay. After all, medieval societies (and some not so medieval if you travel to certain parts of the world), took human life, dignity and empathy with a grain of salt. It was nothing for a solider to run through a village, slaughtering women and children, an act which, if done even once on our western shores, would make headline news. This of course begs the question whether modern society is the exception to history, or is a true evolution of culture. Whichever way one chooses to look, there is a general consensus in the Western world that we would prefer happiness, safety and opportunity for ourselves and our children, rather than war, violence and hate. So, while I can't claim that this is the universally correct state of affairs, I'm going to take the liberty of assuming that we agree on it being the preferred one.
Factors driving dangerous bullying in schools
FACTOR I - DESENSITIZATION TO DISTURBING AND COUNTER-EMPATHETIC BEHAVIOR -THE "JACK-A** AFFECT"
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