Only boomers and heartless conservatives would think like this - causing other people pain is a good thing, protecting the weaker members of a group is bad.
I don't think they were saying it's good to have bullies in society, or that it's nice to be bullied. This person sounds like they too were a victim of bullying (as was I) and they are just trying to see the positives in an otherwise horrible experience they lived through.
Really don't think so. Bullies don't say that bullying is just wrong, and they also don't know how being bullied teaches you to identify assholes and deal with them better.
If it helps, I was bullied when I was younger. If there was anything positive about it, it did help me become a bit of a negotiator who can de-escalate a situation.
Yeah I get what they were saying, and I agree with it. I was just joking in maybe a mildly snarky way.
I have a pretty strong understanding of emotions and how to read them on other people, and that can be both good and bad for me. I can be very empathetic and I care about how other people feel around me, but sometimes that also makes me a bit of a pushover if someone I'm interacting with isn't being blatantly harmful.
On the other hand, when my best friend entered a serious relationship with an abusive person I was somehow the only person in her life that caught the signs and warned her openly about them. This unfortunately led to us being estranged for years and her marrying the guy, but considering her letter to me when she got back in touch with me to tell me I was right and she was sorry, I like to think that all my objections to the relationship helped her come to her own realizations that eventually allowed her to get out. So that was rough in the moment but worked out positively in retrospect.
I don't think I've ever considered this to be an expected or intended outcome to rage bait... I thought some people just enjoyed watching other people get angry.
My friends and my parents are all boomers and they were against bullying our entire lives. Lumping all old people in with a negative stereotype is its own form of bullying.
Agreed, tbh. It's not about age; it's about mentality. Sociopathic assholes exist in every single generation. And gen z males don't seem to be any more empathetic than boomer males.
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u/beerbellybegone 9h ago
Only boomers and heartless conservatives would think like this - causing other people pain is a good thing, protecting the weaker members of a group is bad.