VicunaBlue said:
DaggerOfCompassion said:
VicunaBlue said:
DaggerOfCompassion said:
klaynexas3 said:
so, there's this kid who rides my bus, and one of my friends is also friends with the dude. my friend kind of messes around with the kid, so i did i bit of the same. he tended to laugh at it a bit, cause it wasn't like name calling, i mean, we'd tell a racist joke or two, but it wasn't strictly on him, we did it to must people, even each other. we'd also say his name in like a funny way, nothing really discriminating, just in like a cuban accent(by the way, he's cuban). so, yesterday, this other guy on our bus, that morning had a poptart, and put it on the dudes head. now, the dude stabbed my friend in the arm first with a shank he made out of a pen, thinking it was him. then, in the afternoon, he try's to do the same to the kid that actually put the poptart on his head. the kid punches the dude in the face. now, they get off at the same stop, so on the poptart dudes way home, the cuban kid stabs him, with a knife, in the chest, and it punctures his lung. he's now in a lot of trouble. now, my friend says that us messing with him, isn't what caused it, but the counselor at our school says otherwise. anyway, i want to know, am i at fault here? did i pretty much stab the guy because i messed with this one kid just sort of joking with him? or do you think he was already messed up and just had bad anger issues? just as some more information, he has had some violent behavior before i even really met him.
Well obviously you were at fault. Not fully of course, your friends helped, but you sure did a lot.
Fitting screen name, ehh?
No, you aren't. If he wasn't confident enough to ask you to stop, but had enough balls to shank someone, he probably has a few issues.
So OP racially mocks some kid and the kid responds with something other then gratitude and praise, so the kid who was mocked has issues? I think he was perfectly justified acting with violence against his peers who were violent to him.
If I am to believe the OP, the kid who shanked the other guy seemed to be playing along with it. Teenage kids fuck around with each other all the time, OP Probably thought that was what was going on.
With what the OP said, I know he is at fault. It doesn't make him right when the kid he was bullying started to play along and laugh, start to emulate the bullies.
What the kid did was a defense mechanism against bullies. I know because I was bullied when I was in school.
When someone is being bullied and nobody seems to care, even if you tell an adult about and nothing happens, you resort to desperate measures.
The kid that the OP talks about, mostly decided to laugh along with the bully and start emulating the bully, because the kid might have thought, like I thought in the past, that maybe if you join the bully, you will stop being bullied. If you are a part of the group, why would they keep bullying you?
That is what the kid's mentality most likely was. Then when the bullying still occurred even though the kid thought he had the problem solved, he lashed out, thinking it was his only way to stop the bullying.
Now I didn't do something like that when I was in school being bullied, but that is because I eventually just got a thick emotional skin and just ignored the bullies. The thing is that not everybody is strong enough to do that. The kid the OP talks about, must not have been strong enough to block out the wrong types of actions he could take.
Even though what the kid did was wrong, that he shouldn't have been stabbing people, I side with him.
I really like to see the bullies of the world to finally get what is coming to them. They need to learn that not everybody is going to take the crap they dish out. Eventually one of the kids being bullied will snap and beat the bully up side the head, or in this case stab the deserving bully.
Actions of bullying have consequences, bullies need to know that they possibly have a knife with their name on it for what they did.
The knife could be an actual knife, or the kid's fist, or gun, or in the proper case, an adult punishing the bully like he should be punished. To many adults these days just ignore bullying as just a part of life, they need to learn that it isn't. It is only part of life because people let it be.