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[–]european[S]0 points
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That is a reasonable point I guess. I think though that this is a step in the opposite direction away from leaving everything up to authority. What is being advocated is citizens themselves intervening. I think in the modern area in many places there is a kind of leave it to the authorities mentality partially fuelled by fear of violent retribution to those that intervene or legal repurcussions. This seems to create a society that looks the other way and somehow expects society or authority to solve the problems.
I do like your end point of kids learning how to stand up against bullys growing into adults who stand up against the government. I actually think KiVa would encourage that. Which would you rather have, one person who has learned to stand up to a bully, or an entire group of empathetic people standing together against bullshit?
The article also mentioned that the program (or at least the researcher influencing the program) is against zero - tolerance policies which only teach kids rules and not judgement. So all in all, I think it could be a great program.
Your definition of "bullying" seems to be too all-encompassing to have any meaning.
Your boss isn't a bully for expecting you to fulfill your half of the agreement to work for money. The gov't isn't a bully for making you pay taxes for the services that you receive (even if they do suck to pay).
If this is what you think bullying is, you must live in a terrifyingly brutal world.
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[–] european [S] 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
That is a reasonable point I guess. I think though that this is a step in the opposite direction away from leaving everything up to authority. What is being advocated is citizens themselves intervening. I think in the modern area in many places there is a kind of leave it to the authorities mentality partially fuelled by fear of violent retribution to those that intervene or legal repurcussions. This seems to create a society that looks the other way and somehow expects society or authority to solve the problems.
[–] bunny007 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I do like your end point of kids learning how to stand up against bullys growing into adults who stand up against the government. I actually think KiVa would encourage that. Which would you rather have, one person who has learned to stand up to a bully, or an entire group of empathetic people standing together against bullshit?
The article also mentioned that the program (or at least the researcher influencing the program) is against zero - tolerance policies which only teach kids rules and not judgement. So all in all, I think it could be a great program.
[–] Reubarbarian ago
Your definition of "bullying" seems to be too all-encompassing to have any meaning.
Your boss isn't a bully for expecting you to fulfill your half of the agreement to work for money. The gov't isn't a bully for making you pay taxes for the services that you receive (even if they do suck to pay).
If this is what you think bullying is, you must live in a terrifyingly brutal world.