• Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Better send that bully to juvie than letting them keep on bullying other innocent children. I rather let the innocent keep being innocent.

    Fuck bullies and their future.

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      1 year ago

      Better send that bully to juvie than letting them keep on bullying other innocent children.

      Unless you plan on locking that bully up for a long time or overhauling several systems, you’re statistically creating worse than just a bully with juvie. The current legal system doesn’t have a good measured response for bullying. You either do almost nothing or dis-proportionally (and ineffectively) punish them.

      Fuck bullies and their future.

      And fuck their victims, too? Because bullies only have a slight chance (still much higher than non-bullies) of becoming adult offenders, but if you put them in juvie, that number skyrockets.

      Look. I have no sympathy for bullies, and had to deal with my share of them. But when someone decides the answer in a broken system is to increase the suffering of minors, that’s when I put my foot down.