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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by konschubert on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:42AM (#26202666)
With that logic, grown ups should be chewing each other's faces off in the street all the time. They don't.

So clearly there is something (morale, social pressure, threat of punishment) that prevents them from doing it.

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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by DoreenMichele on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:11AM (#26202845)
With that logic, grown ups should be chewing each other's faces off in the street all the time.

Adults can be plenty cruel. It's just typically done with more subtlety, sophistication and plausible deniability than is employed by teens.

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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by cobraetor on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:24PM (#26206459)
Yes, it can be done at various levels of subtlety as well as at group levels. Why else would we have such words describing adult behavior as "workplace bullying", "online harassment", "domestic violence", "culture wars", "race hustling", etc.?
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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by Ekaros on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:13AM (#26202854)
Have you ever seen how people treat customer service?

Too bad we can't punish them for such uncivil performance. Maybe we should go back to putting them on stocks and streaming it to world. Even with some sort of nice remote online interaction...

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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by oarsinsync on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:13AM (#26205198)
Have you ever seen how people get people in customer service departments to treat other people?

I'm absolutely not saying the abuse given to customer service people get is justified, but it's not unprovoked either.

Turns out when you codify bad behaviour, you get bad responses to that behaviour. What's the justification for codifying that bad behaviour in the first place?

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Re:Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and fr... by loopz on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:04AM (#26203278)
Actually, adults are much worse than the children. They just hide it in plain sight and through various psychopathic systems.
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