Part of me cringes at advocating violence, but if someone threatens you, what else are you going to do? The turn the other cheek method isn't going to work, because it will be perceived as weakness, which is the bully's lifeblood.
I'm a small guy, and I was doubly so when I was younger. Combine that with a baby face, and I looked like easy prey. A kid that was about a foot taller than me stole my gloves(In Michigan, gloves are precious) and was holding them over my head, taunting me with them. Now, this wasn't the appropriate response, but I reached up and bloodied his nose. You know what? He never bothered me again, and in fact, he never even told the teachers who did it.
My point is that the only message bullies understand is a taste of their own medicine, and I'm not going to let someone walk all over me out of some misplaced sense of moral duty.
I'm a small guy, and I was doubly so when I was younger. Combine that with a baby face, and I looked like easy prey. A kid that was about a foot taller than me stole my gloves(In Michigan, gloves are precious) and was holding them over my head, taunting me with them. Now, this wasn't the appropriate response, but I reached up and bloodied his nose. You know what? He never bothered me again, and in fact, he never even told the teachers who did it.
My point is that the only message bullies understand is a taste of their own medicine, and I'm not going to let someone walk all over me out of some misplaced sense of moral duty.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
