Bullying Affects Social Status?

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a ScienceDaily article about the social status effects of bullying on mice and men. From the article: "The results reveal neural mechanisms by which social learning is shaped by psychosocial experience and how antidepressants act in this particular brain circuit. They also suggest new strategies for treating mood disorders such as depression, social phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder, in which social withdrawal is a prominent symptom ... He and his colleagues also discovered that social defeat triggered an upheaval in gene expression in the target area of the circuit, the nucleus accumbens, located deep in the front part of the brain -- 309 genes increased in expression while 17 decreased."

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fuck you motherfuckers

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:No, we need just and enforceable laws

[heinousjay]

I had a reasoned response typed up, but you'll be better served by this one:

Don't be such a pussy, and please don't teach any children you may have to be such pussies. It makes them into sheltered shitheads who can't handle the real world. People aren't always what you want them to be, and you can't legislate them into it, not matter how logical that feels to you. The best thing to do is create a system where everyone learns how to handle themselves and protect each other. You're answer is to run away to someone in charge, and that just exacerbates the problem.

You may disdain childhood violence, but children aren't capable of being reasonable, and violence in kind earns respect. Your solution would work in an ideal world. Mine works in the real one.